Extracting information back out of a DBH

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 10 Feb 2009, at 00:02, Simon Wistow wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:24:03PM +0000, peter at dragonstaff.com said:
>> use DBI;
>> my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:dbname', 'user', 'pass');
>> print Dumper( tied(%$dbh) );
>
> Ahah, the tied was just the ticket.



Perl question: what does tied do and why is it used in this situation?

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