in reply to Class::DBI connect info from file?

...to Class::DBI rather than hard-coding it in the source for your subclass?
No, Class::DBI doesn't support reading connection information from a file. The good news is that you don't have to "hard-code" anything. See "set_db" and "Dynamic Database Connections" in the Class::DBI documentation.

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