in reply to database table named 'with'
No, there is nothing special about the way perl is handling it. "with" is a reserved word in mysql, as shown here. The solution is to surround "with" with backticks (`) as described here. Thus your query would become something like:
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("insert into blah (...,`with`) values(?,?)"); ...
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