Filter Strings

[Kristina H. <khi...@om...>]

Hello,

I am a fairly new Perl programmer (a few weeks), and am working on
integrating our LDAP directory with another database.  I seem to be
having problems with my filter string in one particular instance.  I'm
thinking that it has to do with the fact that I'm trying to use a
variable in my filter string.  I know that the DBI module has the
ability to bind variables when you execute the SQL statement.  Does the
search method of the LDAP module have something similar I can't figure
out?

Here's the code that seems to be giving me trouble:
my $mesg = $ldap->search(...,filter => 'uid=$item', ...)
die ($mesg->error) if $mesg->code;

#put the attributes in a hash table
my %user;
my $entry = $mesg->entry;
#the following line is the one giving me trouble, saying I can't execute
the
#attributes method on a null value.  I figure this is because it's not
finding any
#entries where uid equals "$item"
foreach my $attr ($entry->attributes){
    $user{$attr} = $entry->get_value($attr);
}

This code works perfectly when I have "...filter=> 'uid=kdhilde'..."

Please respond to me directly, as well as the list, because the message
that I sent to per...@ma... to subscribe to
the list bounced back.

Thank-you very much,
Kristina Hildebrand