Big thanks to everyone who provided suggestions, advice - and warnings!

Special thanks to aufflick and jZed. jZed pointed out that it was DBI::db which I needed to override ( I had been working directly under DBI, which wasn't working ). aufflick showed quite succinctly how to achieve exactly what I was asking.

In my "Foo.pm" class: 

{

package DBI::db;

   sub dbq {

      my $self = shift;
      my $sql  = shift;

      my ( $sth );

      $sth = $self->prepare( $sql );

      $sth->execute;

      return $sth;

   }

}

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Works like a charm!

Now I can hand-off $foo->get_dbh to other classes, which are then able to $dbh->dbq( "blah" ) just as they were before -- no need for me to modify a ton of scripts and modules to subclass and/or change behavior.

Thanks again everyone,

Beers!

In reply to Re: object method question by Zarathustra
in thread object method question by Zarathustra

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