I have a MySQL database that has a password that is "some@thing". If I connect to the DB using using an escaped string or collect the password as a CGI parameter it connects without a problem. I've found that it chokes on the password when I read it from a file. As a psuedo-code snippet: 

$_ = "host|db_name|user|some@thing";
($host, $database, $username, $password) = split /\|/;
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database:$host", $username, $password)
+ || error('login');

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This causes the DB connection to fail because of the password. If I do this, it then works: 

$_ = "host|db_name|user|some@thing";
($host, $database, $username, $password) = split /\|/;
$password = "some\@thing";
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database:$host", $username, $password)
+ || error('login');

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I've tried $password = quotemeta($password) but that didn't work either.

I'm stumped and this is holding up my progress. How do I go about escaping the "@" character so MySQL is happy?

Thanks - THRAK

In reply to Escaping MySQL password by THRAK

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