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-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier Bilodeau [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] Username space removal

On 01/09/11 4:42 PM, Tom Fischer wrote:
> 
>    Can anyone help help me with the syntax to remove spaces from the 
> username field? I copied the parserequest from radius.pm to custom.pm.

> I
> changed:
> 
>     my $user_name =$radius_request->{'User-Name'};
> 
>    to
> 
>     my $user_name =$radius_request->{'Stripped-User-Name'};
> 
>    to fix a backslash issue. Now I'm trying to drop spaces out of the 
> names. I tried:
> 
>     my $user_name ={$radius_request->{'Stripped-User-Name'}=~ 
> s/\s//g};
> 
>    but it comes back as HASH(0x2a5f....).
>    I apologize for my lack of Perl skills.  :-<

The s/// operator is performing his changes in-place. You'll be better
with:

my $user_name = $radius_request->{'Stripped-User-Name'};
$user_name =~ s/\s//g;

Since this is perl there is more than one way to do it.

The reason why you were getting an HASH(...) is that the { } around your
expression turned the content into an hash reference. When this hashref
was forced into string context, it stringyfies into the HASH(...) thing.

{ } perform both block separation as in if (...) { ... } but also is a
syntactic sugar to create anonymous hash references. All depending on
context.

If s/\s//g wasn't in-place (there's an operator to do it IIRC), you
would have been right by using parenthesis instead of curly brackets.

I like teaching ;)

Cheers!
--
Olivier Bilodeau
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(www.packetfence.org)

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