Re: utility functions for handling Distinguished Names

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

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:21:57AM +0200, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> --On Freitag, 19. April 2002 08:43 +0100 Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
> wrote:
> > Whats wrong with the subs in Net::LDAP::Utils ?
> 
> ldap_explode_dn does not unescape escaped characters, e.g. the DN 'CN=\#John
> Smith\ ' becomes
> $VAR1 = {
>           'CN' => '\\#John Smith\\20'
>         };
> 
> instad of
> 
> $VAR1 = {
>           'CN' => '#John Smith '
>         };

Hm, I guess canonical_dn needs to be split from usinf explode_dn,
or explode_dn needs to be told not to expand. Otherwise you cannot tell the difference
between

  CN=#a0

and

  CN=\#a0

Do all testcases pass with your functions in place of the existing ones ?

Graham.