#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; my $port=3309; my $host = '127.0.0.1'; my $db = 'udb'; my $username = 'usr'; my $password = 'passwd'; my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$db;host=$host;port=$port"; my $dbh = DBI->connect("$dsn", "$username", "$password") or die "Couldn't connect to database: ".DBI->errstr;