Hello Monk’s. I have been tasked with updating a large windows web application from Perl 5.10 32bit to the latest Perl 5.26.1 64bit, all has gone well until I get to one problem. Under 5.10 the original programmer stored the DBI connection in a custom $ENV variable which is then used in many files for database calls and due to the amount of calls it would be extremely hard to update it everywhere. I wanted to show the dumper information and see if maybe I could understand it better and if there was a solution without modifying all of the files. Example for the variable $ENV{'dbh_connection'}

For Perl 5.10 32 bit, the dumper returns: 
$foo = bless( {}, 'DBI::db' );

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For Perl 5.26.1 64 bit, the dumper returns: 
$foo = 'DBI::db=HASH(0x4ad63e8)';

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If I use a standard variable such as $db_con it will return: 
$foo = bless( {}, 'DBI::db' );

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Thank you ahead of time for all of your help and information.

In reply to Custom $ENV after upgrade not holding DBI connection by ChrisOfVa

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