On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Christopher Bongaarts wrote: > Graham Barr wrote: > >> Also, anything that can dump to a filehandle can dump to a string. >> open(my $fh,">",\my $buffer); >> then pass $fh as the file handle > > Only in perl >= 5.8. Perl 5.6 and earlier won't support this syntax, so I > would advise against using this to implement and ldif() method unless you are > OK with breaking compatibility with older perls...
5.8.0 was released nearly 8 years ago. Anyone who is still using a version of perl that old will not mind using an old version of Net::LDAP IMO. Graham.
