Close Zaxo, I think you were looking for $obj->${\"text_$_"}() (note the reference taken).

Thank you!

I have compiled and run and tested, and it does seem this works!

It doth confuse cperl-mode in emacs, tho!

Cperl-mode understands $caller->$ {\ "database_$_"}() (note spacing) just fine, however.

Whether humans will be able to parse such funny spacing remains to be seen ;->

UPDATE: Actually this compiles fine but doesn't actually work, see first response below for reason why. Thanks anyway.

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Thank you!

I should note, however, that in my case this failed with a syntax error until I added a () to the end of the, as such:

$obj->${"text_${_}"}();
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This may have to do with the particulars of my code.

(As for the DBI call, that stuff can safely be ignored. I would note it was actually flawed insofar as I tried to pass in taint information incorrectly, the correct parameter order is dsn, user, pass, then a hashref with other optional config info, which I usually compose as {Taint=>1}.)

    $obj->${"text_${_}"}();
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I don't think that does what you want it to: it does one too many levels of indirection. if $_ has the value "foo", then I presume you want to do the equivalent of

$obj->text_foo()
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In fact, supposing you have a variable called $text_foo with value bar, then what you are actually doing is the equivalent of

$obj->bar()
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You're right -- this doesn't do what I thought. In fact, while it will compile, it doesn't actually work. :--(