Re: Net::LDAP::Filter question

[Peter M. <pet...@ma...>]

Hi,

On Thursday 24 October 2002 14:51, Graham Barr wrote:
> > I was just wondering if there was a method in Net::LDAP::Filter to
> > do this, I take it the answer is no.  (Note, remember to convert the
> > '\' first!)
>
> There is no method to do the escaping, but one might be useful to add.

I was having the same problem a few moths ago, so I wrote
a module for my private use and use in my company.

It provides 4 functions
* quoteFilterValue(@)
* unquoteFilterValue(@)
* quoteDNValue(@)
* unquoteDNValue(@)

The functions with weilter in their names operate on strings
that are going to be pattern parts of LDAP filters,=20
while the functions with DN in their name operate
on strings that are to become RDN values.

I do not exactly know if theay are correct, but in our company
we use them regularly.

Maybe they can become a part of a future Net::LDAP::Util ;-))
(the first version of Net::LDAP::extraTools contained routines=20
to split DN, but now that these are in Net::LDAP::Util, I cut them out.
Maybe I can gt rid of this extraTools module ;-)

Yours
Peter
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