This question is a direct result of Re^2: anonymous code blocks. I have some code: 
DBTEST: {
 my $dbh=( DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$filename:server.domain.com:3306", 
+'dbadmin', 'password') )
    ? print "db $filename exists\n"
    : print "db $filename does not exist\n";
}

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basically I just want to test for the existance of a database. My question though is even as $dbh goes out of scope is it necessarily cleanly closing the connection? Or does it even matter, since Im doing nothing here other than connecting?

A side question here is how can I kill the output from the connection - if there is no database? 
DBI connect('billexport:server.domain.com:3306','dbadmin',...) failed:
+ Unknown database 'billexport' at ./generatefiles.pl line 21

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In reply to db connections and scope by tcf03

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