Thanks heaps wfsp & Eliya!  I've made use of both of your advice, and it's working (just had to change 'qq{...}' to 'qw{...}' and it was all go).

In response to wfsp's query about $sth2, sorry - when preparing the test script for posting, I'd missed the line: 

  my $sth = "sth$n";

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which should have been after the 'print' line in 'run_sql()'.  If '2' is passed as the 2nd argument, $sth becomes 'sth2', so $$sth references $sth2.  But I'm not using that method anymore, thanks to Eliya's suggestion.

One further question about that 'print' line, if I want to have it print to my DEBUG file, which was opened by script1.pl, how can I share that filehandle to the 'run_sql()' sub?  I've tried adding 'DEBUG' with & without a '*' prefix, to the lists of globals, to no avail.  I'd rather not pass the filehandle as an argument to 'run_sub()' for every call.

Thanks.

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