In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I had a look at the Net::LDAP:LDIF module. As I understand I can read LDIF > from a file. > I have however LDIF in a perl variable. Is there a easy way to use the > variable instead of a file ? What I want to avoid is to use the IO System > if not necessary.
If you have perl >= 5.8.0 and built with PerlIO, you can "open" a scalar to get a filehandle using the three-arg format of open with a reference: open(FH, '<', \$ldif_data); Then just pass FH to your Net::LDAP::LDIF::new call. %% Christopher A. Bongaarts %% [EMAIL PROTECTED] %% %% Internet Services %% http://umn.edu/~cab %% %% University of Minnesota %% +1 (612) 625-1809 %%