MySQL in a Nutshell

Name

parse_dsn( )

Synopsis

DBI->parse_dsn($data_source_name)

This returns the components of the DBI Data Source Name (DSN) values: the scheme (i.e., dbi); the driver (i.e, $ENV{DBI_DRIVER}); an optional attribute string; a reference to a hash with the attribute names and values; and the DSN DBI string.

...
my ($scheme, $driver, $attributes_string,
       $attributes_hash, $driver_dsn) = DBI->parse_dsn($dsn);