Dumb Perl-related question

Hi,

This question is so dumb that I am embarassed to ask it, but I can't
seem to figure it out myself. I have a select statement with a where clause,
where I am trying to select all values from the database that match a string
literal. Only whenever I try to specify a string literal in the query, it
gives me a syntax error on the first word in the literal.

What I'm doing looks like this:

$query = "select recipe_name, occasion, num_served, prep_time, " .
"freezable, instructions " .
"from recipe " .
"where recipe_name = '$recipe';";
$result = $dbconn->exec($query);
$rstatus = $result->resultStatus;
if ($rstatus != PGRES_TUPLES_OK && $rstatus != PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY) {
croak "getRecipe: Database error during query: " .
$dbconn->errorMessage;
}

Every time, it prints out the following error:

getRecipeEquipment: Database error during query: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "no" at ./recipeDisplay line 33

The recipe name I am using is 'No Such Recipe'.

There would only be one row ever returned, since recipe_name is the
primary key of the recipe table.

I am using perl 5.005_55, postgreSQL 6.4.2 (with the Pg module which
is distributed with it).

I have tried every different type of quote that my keyboard will
allow me to enter, casts, you name it, I think I've tried it. Well,
obviously not, since I am certain that this MUST work somehow or another.
About half of the things I've tried work fine in psql, just not in the Perl
interface.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brendan
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