Sorry, I didn't notice the filename went into the $dsn -- I'm not a database expert, and didn't know it could go there. Digging into the code, it appears that it's parsed via the underlying c code, using mysql_options(sock, MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE, df);. The mysql-options documentation says that you use that option to get it to read from the given file... The option-files doc claims that "Leading and trailing spaces are automatically deleted from option names and values", which implies that spaces around the equal shouldn't matter. It may be that you've got a different version of mysql than the 8.0 reference manual my searches brought me to, or that the statement is misleading and spaces around the equal are bad.

edit: fix "optoins" typo. Also, want to clarify: when I saw the anonymous "seriously" reply, I wanted something slightly more helpful than that. However, I was apparently confused into believing the parsing was something you had done externally to what you had quoted, rather than something that mysql handles internally. So instead of being helpful, I went in the wrong debug direction. Sorry.

In reply to Re^7: Reading host from defaults file with DBD::mysql by pryrt
in thread Reading host from defaults file with DBD::mysql by Llew_Llaw_Gyffes

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