On 17/10/03 9:21 pm, Jason Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am having trouble returning a multi-valued attribute's values. My search
> query returns about 8 total attributes one of which is a multi-valued
> attribute, meaning it contains a dynamic number of values. I can't figure out
> nor can I find any documentation on how to return all the values for that
> attribute, I can only seem to get the very first value. I am sorry I know this
> is an easy one, but I just can't find any documentation on Net-LDAP on
> searching multi-valued attributes except for that it is possible. Any help is
> appreciated thanks.
To retrieve the values for an attribute, you call $entry->get_value("attr").
The trick is that if you call get_value in a perl scalar context (ie perl
knows you only want a single value back), get_value only returns one of the
values. If you call get_value in a perl list context (ie perl knows you want
multiple values back), get_value returns an array (list) of all the values.
This is briefly mentioned in the Net::LDAP::Entry documentation, but you
need to read the general perl docs to make complete sense out of it.
Anyway, to force array context, try this:
my (@vals) = $entry->get_value("attr");
> Jason Riedel
>
Cheers,
Chris
