Maybe you are trying to interpolate method calls in strings? Unfortunatly, function- and method calls will not interpolate in strings. So you might try something like this instead: print "Got: ", $cgi->escape("some_value"), "\n"; Well, you can do something like the following, but I don't think it's pretty: print qq(Got: @{[ $cgi->escape("some_value") ]}\n); Autark