hi

In perl we have DBI module to connect to any database.

step1: we need to intialise the DBI module

use DBI;

step2 : connect to database using DBI module which reutrns database handle

$dh DBI->connect( dbi:mysql:database DBname username password );

step3 : to rertive data from database use select query

$sth $dh->prepare( select name symbol from table );

$sth->execute();

while(@row $sth->fetchrow_array()){

print name $row[0] symbol $row[1];

}

$dh->disconnect();