RE: Search filter problem

[CZachary]

Thanks for you help.

I tried this, but now I don't get any out put.  Not even an error message.





"Colbourn, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
09/27/2006 12:32 PM

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RE: Search filter problem






Hi,

according to the rfc, ( and ) are reserved characters (because they 
delimit clauses in the filter, the same is true of * because it's a 
wildcard).

change your filter to read ( employeetype=consultant \28pre-release\29 )

and it should work fine. \28 and \29 are the escapes for ( and ), \2a is 
the escape for * if you should need it.

regards,


charles.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 September 2006 17:22
To: perl-ldap@perl.org
Subject: Search filter problem


Hello all,

I am writing a simple search script using Net::LDAP.  The problem that I

am having is with the filter.

When I execute my script I get the following error message: "Bad filter
at 
line 15".

The attribute that I am use a part of the filter is "employeetype" and
the 
value is "consultant (pre-release)".  This is a legitimate value.

I am able to retrieve the entries with the command line tool
"ldapsearch", 
but I am have trouble do it within  my Net::LDAP script.

My code is below.

Thank you.


use Net::LDAP qw(:all);
use Net::LDAP::Util qw(ldap_error_text);

my $ldconnect = Net::LDAP->new('host', port=>'389') || die "$@";

my $sr = $ldconnect->search(
                                base=> 'O=com',
                                scope=> 'sub',
                                filter=> "( employeetype=consultant 
(pre-release) )"
);

 $sr->code && die "failed search: ", $sr->error ;

foreach my $entry ($sr->entries)
{
        $dn = $entry->dn;
        $cn = $entry->get_value('cn') || '-';
        $emp = $entry->get_value('employeetype') || '-';

        print "DN: $dn\n";
        print "Common Name: $cn\n";
        print "EMP Type: $emp\n";
}