Fellow monks,
consider the following code and output: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;

my @db_drivers = DBI->available_drivers();

foreach my $db_driver (@db_drivers) {

    print "$db_driver\n";
    
    my @data_sources = DBI->data_sources($db_driver);
    
    print "\t",  join(", ",@data_sources), "\n";    
    
}

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Output: 

$ perl DBI_data_sources.pl
DBM
        DBI:DBM:f_dir=.
ExampleP
        dbi:ExampleP:dir=.
File
        DBI:File:f_dir=.
Gofer

Proxy

SQLite

Sponge

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I am aware of DBI->data_sources

"Note that many drivers have no way of knowing what data sources might be available for it. These drivers return an empty or incomplete list or may require driver-specific attributes."
and would like to see a real world (tm) example output with defined values for data_sources.

Thanks.

In reply to Is DBI->data_sources($db_driver) useless? by Anonymous Monk

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