(original post)
I am trying to call a function using an interpolated string as the parameter.
Can it be done like this ...?
I am using strict ...

    (subsequent post)
... I had defined the log function with empty parentheses ...

shiftee: If you had originally posted the error message reported by Perl (and the code around-about the indicated line number), the humble monks might have avoided a dead-end side-trip along the path to giving you a pertinent answer to your question.

>perl -wMstrict -le
"sub foo () { print 'hi, i am foo'; }
 ;;
 main::foo('this is an argument');
"
Too many arguments for main::foo at -e line 1, near "'this is an argum
+ent')"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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