Re: Net::LDAP Filter question

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

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:02:54AM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Ah, I hadn't noticed the whitespace before. The grammar in RFC 2254 doesn't
> appear to permit additional whitespace in the expression, so you should
> probably try to avoid adding it where you don't need it.

Yeah, I realized that after I posted. I also wrote this test

#!perl -l

use Net::LDAP::Filter;

$filter = "(&(whenCreated >= 20020812000000.0Z) (whenCreated <= 20020812235959.0Z))";
print Net::LDAP::Filter->new($filter)->as_string;

$filter = "(&(whenCreated>=20020812000000.0Z) (whenCreated<=20020812235959.0Z))";
print Net::LDAP::Filter->new($filter)->as_string;
__END__
(&(whenCreated>= 20020812000000.0Z)(whenCreated<= 20020812235959.0Z))
(&(whenCreated>=20020812000000.0Z)(whenCreated<=20020812235959.0Z))

As you can see it ignores whitespace before the operator, but not after.

Re-reading the RFC I dont really want to change it. If there are other libraries that
ignore whitespace after the operator, I would say they are broken.

Graham.