I want to have a double-quoted string like this, where $dbh is a DBI database handle and $userinput is (potentially hostile) user input: 

"select * from foo where bar = $dbh->quote($userinput)"

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It doesn't work. That quote method isn't called. Instead, the $dbh object itself is converted to a string.

This works like I want: 

"select foo from bar where baz = ${ \$dbh->quote($userinput) }"

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But that is an ugly hack, referencing and dereferencing just to trick Perl's string parser into doing what I want.

Any better ideas? I know I can do "blah".$whatever."blah" but that's even harder for my eyes to parse.

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In reply to Calling a method within a double-quoted string? by Anonymous Monk

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