> curlies when doing so to avoid one being used to break out of the `q{}`.
>
> Alternative ways to handle it would be:
+>
> * Escape curlies. But then you have to deal with backslashes
> in the user's input as they could try to defeat your escaping.
> Gets tricky.
+>
> * Avoid exposing user input to interpolation as a string. One
> way that comes to mind is to have a local string lookup hash,
> and insert each user specified string into it, then use the hash
-> to lookup the specified strings at runtime.
+> to lookup the specified strings at runtime. [[done]]
>
> --[[Joey]]
+
+Thank you! I'll try it. --Ivan Z.