use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use DBI;

GetOptions("site=s" => \my $site)
    or die "Error in command line arguments\n";
defined $site
    or die "usage: $0 site_name\n";

my %site_map = (
    site1 => { host => 'host1', db=>'db1', user=>'user1', pw=>'pw1' },
    site2 => { host => 'host2', db=>'db2', user=>'user2', pw=>'pw2' },
    site3 => { host => 'host3', db=>'db3', user=>'user3', pw=>'pw3' },
);

my $dbh = dbconnect($site);

sub dbconnect {
    my $s = shift;
    die "bad site $s" unless $site_map{$s};
    my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$site_map{$s}{db};host=$site_map{$s}
+{host}";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $site_map{$s}{user}, $site_map{$s}{pw
+})
        or die "ERROR: can't connect to database server site $s";
    return $dbh;
}

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