Graham,
studying the documentation of Net::LDAP::Search's sorted routine, I was wondering
whether the routine uses LDAP's object comparison methods (which would be rather
heavy weighted). The documentation is unclear about that:
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=item sorted ( [ ATTR_LIST ] )
Return a list of L<Net::LDAP::Entry> objects, sorted by the attributes given in ATTR_LIST. The attributes are compared in the order specified, each only being compared if all the prior attributes compare equal. If all the specified attributes compare equal then the DN is used to determine order. ---
Inspecting the implementation, I found out that you simply use the "cmp" operator
to compare strings. The code is a bit too dense for me to understand fully,
however.
Regards, Ulrich Windl
