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');
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');
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
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