perl-ldap-dev

Re: Passing a filehandle to LDAP::LDIF::new()

[Peter M. <pet...@ad...>]

Hi,

On Thursday 27 March 2003 01:58, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> The manpage says that an already-opened filehandle can be passed to
> LDAP::LDIF::new(), but this does not appear to be the case.  For exampl=
e,
> the following fails:
>
> my $ldif =3D Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(ARGV) || die "Cannot open input: $!";
>
> Cannot open input: No such file or directory at chk.pl line 19.

AFAIK ARGV is no file handle but an array.
Try it with STDIN, STDOUT or a handle opend using open()

Peter
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Re: Passing a filehandle to LDAP::LDIF::new()

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

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:52AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> The manpage says that an already-opened filehandle can be passed to
> LDAP::LDIF::new(), but this does not appear to be the case.  For example,
> the following fails:
> 
> my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(ARGV) || die "Cannot open input: $!";
> 
> Cannot open input: No such file or directory at chk.pl line 19.
> 
> Have I misunderstood something?

The docs need to be made more clear that the file handle must be passed by reference.

  my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new(\*ARGV) || die "Cannot open input: $!";

Graham.

Re: Passing a filehandle to LDAP::LDIF::new()

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

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:
> AFAIK ARGV is no file handle but an array.

It is. ARGV is a special handle that is used by <>.
<ARGV> is identical to <>

Graham.