Just suck it and see I should think

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:CSV:f_dir=/usr/local/whatever")
               or die "Some sort of problem: " . $DBI::errstr;
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This just checks if DBI can connect via DBD:CSV to a database along the path noted and should fail if the DBD module is absent or the database is not accessible. You get the reason from $DBI::errstr;

Update

Of course if I had *read the docs properly* I would have suggested what chromatic did which is a much less agricultural approach.

cheers

tachyon

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