List installed DBI drivers

The following Perl program, which hardly deserves the name program, prints a list of all installed DBI drivers. DBI is he standard database interface module for Perl.

use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;

print map "$_\n",
      DBI->available_drivers;

Example output of the program:

DBM
ExampleP
File
Proxy
Sponge
mysql

If the driver you require is not installed, use CPAN to find the right DBD (database driver) module.

DBI related links

• Perl DBI - Official site includes documentation, etc.
• CPAN: Find database driver (DBD) modules
• CPAN: Find DBI extension modules (DBIx)

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