You are right, of course. I'm sorry for the confusion.

But I think I've found the solution. The format of the file is OK with a newline, the problem is the invocation of the connect method: if you specify an empty string for the password, it has precedence over the one specified in the config. You need to specify undef for the password to get it replaced by the configuration value. 

my @dsns = (
    $dsn,
     '',    # username is read from file
     undef, # password is read from file!!
     {RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1}
);

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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re^3: MariaDB : read credentials from file fails (via dsn option mariadb_read_default_file) by choroba
in thread MariaDB : read credentials from file fails (via dsn option mariadb_read_default_file) by bliako

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