Brother chromatic, I am not having much success reproducing this. If I create this simple script it works. However, if I try it in an application I am working on it doesn't. After a few hours of frustration I have decided to punt. Help please? Here is a chunk of my code. I am pulling the string out of the database instead of arbitrarily setting it:

    my $WhereVal = $Return->[0]->{WhereVal};
    my $Temp2 = 2;
    warn $WhereVal;
    eval "\$Temp = qq/$WhereVal/";
    warn $Temp;
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The result is that the eval fails. The log shows:

c.AppModule=m.AppModule and m.Application=$Temp2 at (eval 43) line 19.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at (eval 43) line 20.
Use of uninitialized value in warn at (eval 43) line 21.
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The complete subroutine, less gratuitous debugging code:

sub VWP_RunQuery {
  my ($QueryRef, @Params) = @_;

  if ($QueryRef) {
    VWP_Log(5, "Running query $QueryRef...");
    my $stt = "select q.FromVal, q.OrderVal, q.SelectVal, q.WhereVal "
+ . 
      "from VWPQuery q, VWPQueryRef qr where q.Query=qr.Query and " .
    "qr.DBType = ? and qr.Query = ?";
    my $Return = VWP_SQL($stt, ($Session::DBType, $QueryRef));

    if (@$Return) {
      my $OrderVal = $Return->[0]->{OrderVal};
      $stt = "select " . $Return->[0]->{SelectVal} . " from " . 
    $Return->[0]->{FromVal};
      if ($Return->[0]->{WhereVal}) {
        my $WhereVal;
    eval "\$WhereVal = qq/$Return->[0]->{WhereVal}/";
    $stt = $stt . " where " . $WhereVal;
      }
      if ($OrderVal) {
    if (($OrderVal =~ /order by/) || ($OrderVal =~ /ORDER BY/)) {
      $stt = $stt . " " . $OrderVal;
    } else {
      $stt = $stt . " order by " . $OrderVal;
    }
      }
      return VWP_SQL($stt, @Params);
    }
  }
  VWP_StrMessage(1, 13, $QueryRef);
}
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