Excellent, thanks - that works a treat:)
I'd actually used placeholders in other parts of the same script, but it hadn't occurred to me to use them here.

And of course by using placeholders, the line:

join("," , map {qq("$_")} @row)
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in my original example becomes no longer necessary, as the quoting is automagically taken care of by DBI.

Thanks again,
--Darren