OK, this is going to seem trivial and I am sure it is. However so many of you have helped me in the past.
I have been using Perl 5.8.0 for doing various project for about 6 months now and the majority of these projects include doing datbase work with DBI and Oracle. I have the connection strings for this and have had no problem. The problem now is I am trying to learn DBI:MySQL and start using MySQL for my own projects. Lo and behold it is failing at the connection string. At least I think it is. I get a messagebox from Windows (Argh!! Damn you Bill!!) saying "This application failed to start because PERL56.DLL was not found. Please try reinstalling this application."
Now, I have been using 5.8.0 and do not even have 5.6 that I am aware of. I also get a message from PERL saying "Perhaps a required shared library or DLL is not installed where expected at Line 6."
Fair enough. I have tried installing DBI and MySQL driver again and again. I have read on CPAN how to call the driver but this smacks of something slightly different. I am sure the answer is quite close and just out of grasp. My mind is weak this morning from Matrix aftermath. Please if any monk has a clue or koan that leads me in correct direction I will gladly take it.
Also I know this connection string is likely wrong now as I mucked with it so many ways. This is fine, but I am including some code so you may see what I am doing. It is extremely simple compared to what I have been doing.
Please no laughing. I am including only relevant parts of the code.
use DBI;
my ($dbh, $sth, $count);
$dbh = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:database=webdb;host=localhost",
                    "webdev"," ",
                    {PrintError=>0, RaiseError=>1});

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As usual. Thank you all for your wonderful help.

Akira

In reply to DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error by Akira71

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