Peter,
Thanks so much for your super-fast reply, which made me realize that
entry->get_value($attr)
returns a list which can be iterated :)
This definitely did the trick.
-Mehmet
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Peter Karman <pe...@peknet.com> wrote:
> Mehmet wrote on 08/11/2011 10:54 AM:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am new to perl-ldap and like it very much, however I have a problem I
> > cannot solve by myself (or using google).
> >
> > I have some attributes with multiple values in the same entry, such as:
> >
> > description: abc
> > description: def
> > description: ghi
> > ...
> >
> > I perform a search using a base & filter, then try to list all attributes
> > and their values in a foreach loop:
> >
> > foreach my $entry ($searchResults->entries) {
> > foreach my $attr ($entry->attributes) {
> > for ($attr) { if (/^description$/) { printf ("%s -> %s \n",
> > $attr, $entry->get_value($attr) ); }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > the reason I am using for ($attr) is that I have several checks in the
> loop,
> > which I omit here for readability.
> >
> > Now the problem: I noticed that $entry->attributes lists each attribute
> only
> > once! Therefore, I can only print a single value, which happens to be on
> the
> > top of the list (only "abc" in the above example).
> >
>
> You probably want instead something like:
>
> for my $entry ($searchResults->entries) {
> for my $attr ($entry->attributes) {
> if ($attr eq 'description') {
> printf("%s -> %s\n", $attr,
> join(", ", $entry->get_value($attr))
> );
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . pe...@peknet.com
>
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