Re: Filter Strings

[Jim H. <ha...@us...>]

use " instead of '
  filter => "uid=$item"
single quotes say to take what is between them literally, doubles say to
interpolate values.
  --Jim Harle


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kristina Hildebrand wrote:

> 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
>
>