One problem I see is this: Your Windows path delimiters act as escape chars in Perl.
A couple of solutions: Double up the backslashes, e.g. "...:c\\programme\\xamapp\\..." Use single quotes to disable interpolation of escape chars: '...:c\programme\xamapp\...' -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Claus-Peter Becke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:41 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: problems to connect to a mysql-database dear members, i have some problems to fetch the data from a mysql database generated with phpmyadmin. i'm a beginner in programming in perl. i'm nit sure whther i chose a well formed expression to refer to the database. here is the code: $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:c\programme\xampp\mysql\data\lexikon;localhost","myusername","mypassword") or die "Keine Verbindung möglich: " . $DBI::errstr; $sql = "select * from v"; $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "prepare nicht möglich: " . $dbh->errstr(); $sth->execute() or die "execute nicht möglich: " . $sth->errstr(); while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) { print "@row\n"; } $sth->finish; $dbh->disconnect; after having processed this code i exspect the engine to print the values stored in table "v". this code is part of a cgi-script which shall be used to a database which contains a thesaurus and to check whether
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