Thanks again almut. I understand and agree with what you are saying. I checked for the errors and this is what I got "error: Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at (eval 5) line 1."

This made me realize that even though I might be quoting the arguments string in the code posted here correctly, I wasn't doing that right in the actual code where I also needed to first escape both $ in my hash to be \$\$myHash. Adding that extra stuff fixed it. I didn't even think that was the problem - there's a duh! moment. :)

While I am not sure why I wasn't getting the "Too many arguments..." error in my direct call to mySub("Hello world"), it is likely I would have got that error once I actually quoted my string right in the eval. I added the direct call in your code to highlight what I am saying about not getting the error when making the direct call: 

my $code = << 'EOC';
sub mySub() {
    print "args: @_\n";
}
EOC

eval $code;

print qq(\ncalling 'mySub()'\n);
eval 'mySub()';
print "error: $@" if $@;

print qq(\ncalling 'mySub("hello world")' directly\n);
mySub("hello world");

print qq(\ncalling 'mySub("hello world")'\n);
eval 'mySub("hello world")';
print "error: $@" if $@;

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Running this returned:

calling 'mySub()'
args:

calling 'mySub("hello world")' directly
args: hello world

calling 'mySub("hello world")'
error: Too many arguments for main::mySub at (eval 3) line 2, near ""h
+ello world")"

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In reply to Re^4: eval sub by samip
in thread eval sub by samip

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