Net::LDAP::Filter - representation of LDAP filters
use Net::LDAP::Filter; $filter = Net::LDAP::Filter->new( $filter_str );
The Net::LDAP::Filter object lets you directly manipulate LDAP filters without worrying about the string representation and all the associated escaping mechanisms.
Create a new object and parse FILTER.
Parse FILTER. The next call to ber will return this filter encoded.
Return the filter in text form.
Print the text representation of the filter to FH, or the currently selected output handle if FH is not given.
Below is the syntax for a filter given in RFC-2254 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2254.txt
filter = "(" filtercomp ")"
filtercomp = and / or / not / item
and = "&" filterlist
or = "|" filterlist
not = "!" filter
filterlist = 1*filter
item = simple / present / substring / extensible
simple = attr filtertype value
filtertype = equal / approx / greater / less
equal = "="
approx = "~="
greater = ">="
less = "<="
extensible = attr [":dn"] [":" matchingrule] ":=" value
/ [":dn"] ":" matchingrule ":=" value
present = attr "=*"
substring = attr "=" [initial] any [final]
initial = value
any = "*" *(value "*")
final = value
attr = AttributeDescription from Section 4.1.5 of RFC-2251
matchingrule = MatchingRuleId from Section 4.1.9 of RFC-2251
value = AttributeValue from Section 4.1.6 of RFC-2251
Special Character encodings
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* \2a, \*
( \28, \(
) \29, \)
\ \5c, \\
NUL \00
Net::LDAP, Other online documentation
This document is based on a document originally written by Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz>.
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
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Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
