Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?

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

That is an easy fix to IO::Scalar though

sub TELL { shift->{Pos} }

Graham.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:34:40PM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> No such luck,
> I got it to work, except IO::Scalar dosen't support the TELL function?
> 
> Can't locate object method "TELL" via package "IO::Scalar" at
> C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/LDAP/LDIF.pm line 169.
> 
> Source code:
> ---
> use Net::LDAP::Entry;
> use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
> use IO::Scalar;
> 
> my ($destentry) = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
> $destentry->add('cn'=>['Eric Nichols']);
> $destentry->dn('cn=eric nichols,o=cps');
> 
> my $s;
> tie *OUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$s;
> 
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*OUT,"a");
> $ldif->write($destentry);
> $ldif->done();
> 
> print $s;
> ---
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Barr" <gb...@po...>
> To: "Eric Nichols" <eni...@cp...>
> Cc: <per...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Writing an LDIF to a variable?
> 
> 
> > It should be possible using the IO::Scalar package.
> >
> > Create the IO::Scalar object then
> >
> > my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($io_scalar,"w");
> > $ldif->write(@entries);
> >
> > should work, but I have not tried it
> >
> > Graham.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:06AM -0500, Eric Nichols wrote:
> > > This might have been asked before.
> > > Is there any way I can take an Net::LDAP::Entry object and save it in
> LDIF
> > > format to a variable rather than a file?
> > >
> > > I'm sure there's some perl trick to it..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
>