Re: ldif reading/writing problem

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

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 05:38:52PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Right, but as Andrew points out that doesn't work. The code:
> 
> 	$entry->delete('foo', 'bar');
> 
> fails, despite the documentation ;-) I'm not sure what people really want
> to do with this method (as I mentioned I've not really used it before) so
> this may really be a documentation bug. How about this instead:
> 
> 	delete ( ATTR [ => VALUE [, ATTR2 => VALUE2 ... ] )
> 
> 		Delete one or more attributes from the entry. Each value must either be a
> scalar variable or a reference to an array (an empty array means delete all
> the values). As a special case to delete a single attribute completely,
> just pass the name of the attribute. The following two examples are
> equivalent:
> 
> 		$entry->delete( 'mail' );
> 		$entry->delete( 'mail' => [ ] );

The reason the first works is because undef passed as the value is
treated the same as [] being passed.

Doc patch welcome.

Graham.