I thought so too. However, neither the use of single quotes nor the $dbobject->quote method works. I read some about placeholders but I don't see an example where they are used for a tablename. Also the Win32 perldoc is drainbamaged and doesn't support unix style searches. If you have a copy of 'Programming the Perl DBI' page number quotes would be helpful. I read a bit on pg 194... but the explanation seems a bit sparse.

UPDATE Place Holders don't appear to be the solution.
Page 221 of Programming the Perl DBI:

     "SELECT name,age FROM ?" # wrong will probably fail.

With most drivers, placeholders can't be used for any element of a sta
+tement that would prevent the database server from validating the sta
+tement and creating a query execution plan for it.

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This seems to imply the problem may lie in the driver? (I'm guessing) Am I off base with this? I also added the following snippet to try to capture the table name from the database and then open the table. Again everything works when 8.3 names are used. I get the extra character in SQL statement error for the weird names.

Comment out or replace read_log(shift) with get_table_list(shift) in the first listing and add the following subroutine. It is supposed to print the table name then dump the table for every table in the database. 

sub get_table_list ($) {
    my $log = shift;
    my $dbobject = DBI->connect("DBI:XBase:".$basedir.$logdir)
        or die $DBI::errstr;
    my @tables = $dbobject->tables;
    print "Database contains the following tables:\n__________________
+______\n";
    foreach my $table (@tables) {
        print "$table\n";
        read_log($table);
    }
    print"\n\n";
        $dbobject->disconnect;
}

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in thread DBI Long File names? by talwyn

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