Re: Question on Parsing LDIF with Net::LDAP::LDIF

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

You are trying to ->write to an LDIF object that was opened for read.
You need to create a new object for write

  $ldif_out = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new('-', 'w');

Graham.

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:44:41AM -0800, Jeremy Fassler wrote:
> Basically what I'm trying to do is pull information out of an LDIF file,
> and put it into an array or hash, so I can display it to the user and
> export it into a database. The commented line #print "$entry\n"; was
> taken out becuase it just prints the hash reference, and not the data
> itself, so I was told to use $ldif->write($entry); instead. However,
> when I do this, it outputs no data.  My test ldif file has 3 entries,
> and if I uncomment that line, it does print 3 hash references. So I know
> it is reading the file, but I cant get any info out of it!
> 
> Thanks in advance!   Here is my code. (win32 platform)
> 
> 
> #!d:/perl/bin/perl.exe
> 
> use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
> 
> $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new( "D:/test.ldif", "r" );
> 
> while( $entry = $ldif->read() )
> 
> {
> 
> #print "$entry\n";
> 
> $ldif->write($entry);
> 
> }
> 
> $ldif->done();
> 

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