On Sun, June 19, 2005 10:28 am, Peter Marschall said: > On Wednesday 15 June 2005 15:13, Graham Barr wrote: >> On Wed, June 15, 2005 2:47 am, Chris Ridd said: >> >> 3) If Net::LDAP::LDIF is run on UNIX but opens a Windows-created LDIF >> >> file (\r\n instead of just \n line endings), read_entry doesn't >> properly >> >> read in the separate entries. >> >> Can you expand on that. What do you get? > > I guess the OP is getting te error message: > First line of LDIF entry does not begin with 'dn:' > > As far as I found out, this is due to the fact that Perl's paragraph mode > that Net::LDAP::LDIF uses, seems to rely on the "natural" line ends for > the platform. > > My tests showed that paragraph mode = slurp mode for files with CR+LF line > endings on a Linux platform, which uses LF line ends. > Really strange ;-)
That was my guess, I just wanted confirmation. I guess LDIF.pm needs to be rewritten without the use of paragraph mode. Graham.
