How To Determine Your Perl Module Version

Author: , April 12th, 2012

For example, to see the version for DBD::mysql, do this: perl -MDBD::mysql -we ‘print $DBD::mysql::VERSION;’

Bitten by CPAN?

Author: , April 15th, 2010

I was not able to get error values back properly from a raw PERL DBI connection to mysql. I finally reinstalled DBD::mysql in cpan and lo, and behold! I started getting error values in my code. I was very, very happy when it started working properly!