in reply to Re^2: Template Toolkit and DBI Changing Table Name by Variable
in thread Template Toolkit and DBI Changing Table Name by Variable

You were executing a line of TT code, not a line of Perl code. Perl's rules don't apply. (Although Perl does the same thing here.)
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