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hi all you noble men, i just try to read in some data from a config file with following code and try to connect to a mysql database, but i always get the error, script could not connect to database.

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use HTML::Entities;


my $db_config_file = "db.cfg";
my %db_config = ();
open CONFIG, ("< $db_config_file") or die "Konnte Datenbank Konfigurat
+ions Datei nicht &ouml;ffnen! $!";
my @config_pairs = <CONFIG>;
close CONFIG;
foreach (@config_pairs) {
    chomp $_;
    my ($key, $value) = split/:/, $_;
    $db_config{$key} = $value;
}
my $database = $db_config{'database'};
my $db_server = $db_config{'db_server'};
my $db_user = $db_config{'db_user'};
my $db_pass = $db_config{'db_pass'};

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:$database:$db_server", "$db_user", "
+$db_pass") or die "Konnte Datenbankverbindung nicht herstellen: $!";
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if i read in the config file with the following code

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use HTML::Entities;



my $db_config_file = "db.cfg";
my %db_config = ();
open CONFIG, ("< $db_config_file") or die "Konnte Datenbank Konfigurat
+ions Datei nicht &ouml;ffnen! $!";
my @config_pairs = <CONFIG>;
close CONFIG;
foreach (@config_pairs) {
    chomp $_;
    my ($key, $value) = split/:/, $_;
    $db_config{$key} = $value;
}
my $database = $db_config{'database'};
my $db_server = $db_config{'db_server'};
my $db_user = $db_config{'db_user'};
my $db_pass = $db_config{'db_pass'};

my $query = new CGI;

print $query->header();
print $query->start_html();
print $database . "<br>";
print $db_server . "<br>";
print $db_user . "<br>";
print $db_pass . "<br>";

print $query->end_html();
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it prints out the correct values->

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><title>U
+ntitled Document</title>
</head><body>db29970540
<br>db07.puretec.de
<br>p7397271
<br>8vskBBPH<br></body></html>
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what is the error i do? update-> the config file looks like this:

database:xxxxxx
db_server:yyy.yyyyy.yy
db_user:xxxxxx
db_pass:yyyyyy
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In reply to problems with reading data from cfg file by pitbull3000

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