Read a .my.cnf file and extract credentials and other details to connect to a MySQL database.
func ReadMyCnf reads a .my.cnf (~/.my.cnf by default), searches for the named "profile" in that file and returns a DSN (string) suitable for use in sql.Open().
This is based on a gist from https://gist.github.com/nickcarenza and modified to accept default values passed in a structure from the calling function.
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