Re: Can't call method "read" without a package or object reference at...

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

That means you didn't get back a file handle try doing
my $ldif = new .... || die("failed to open file $ldif_file. $!\n");

that will die and tell you the reason why it failed to create the
filehandle.

mark

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bing Du wrote:

> The following code piece gave the following error.
> 
> ===============================
> #!/usr/sbin/perl
> 
> use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
> 
> $ldif_file = "/var/md/dsa/master/dump/mailusers.dump";
> 
> $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new("$ldif_file","r");
> 
> while ( $entry = $ldif->read() ) {
> $entry->dump;
> }
> 
> $ldif->done();
> ==============================
> 
> Can't call method "read" without a package or object reference at
> ./for-keith-ph
> .pl line 19.
> 
> Acctually, most part of the above code was from 'perldoc
> Net::LDAP::LDIF'.  Can anybody tell me what I did wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bing
>