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in reply to What modules do I need to connect Perl to MySQL?

It's simple, select 'Mysql':
#!/usr/bin/perl use Mysql; $DBHOST = "localhost"; $DBNAME = "dbname"; $DBUSER = "user"; $DBPASS = "password"; $DB = Mysql->connect($DBHOST, $DBNAME, $DBUSER, $DBPASS); my $qry = $DB->query( qq~SELECT * FROM cds~ ); while( @emps = $qry->fetchrow) { print qq~ $emps[0]<br> ~; }