Re: Filter Strings

[Lance U. <la...@ve...>]

> 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', ...)

[snip]
Try using double quotes here because single quotes will not expand the
variable.

-Lance