in reply to Database Downloads

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db","$user","$pass");

<pedantic> quoting $user and $pass like that isn't really necessary, as far as I know. See perlfaq that says "What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?". </pedantic>

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RE: RE: Database Downloads
by steveAZ98 (Monk) on Jul 23, 2000 at 03:23 UTC
    Cool, thanks for the tip. I just added that for the post because my original script had the username and password hardcoded in single quotes.
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