Are type conversions necessary? (e.g. input is a string "1", but attribute in LDAP is typed Integer)

[Economou, M. (G. C. Solutions) <mat...@ae...>]

Hello,

I have a Perl script that takes a DN, attribute, and values to replace on the
command line and executes the Net::LDAP::modify method with the specified
arguments, e.g. (with error checking, binding, etc., elided):

$modifydn = shift;
$attribute = shift;
foreach $arg (@ARGV) { push @values, $arg; }
$result = $ldap -> modify (dn => $modifydn, replace => { $attribute => [ @values
] });

All in all, it's fairly simple (the only big hang up I had was figuring out that
the "@values" part required square braces).  My question regards type converting
the @values list.  If the attribute that is being added/replaced is an integer
instead of a string, do I need to walk POSIX::strtol over @values, or will LDAP
or the module Do The Right Thing?

Kind regards,
#\Matthew