Net::LDAP::Filter - representation of LDAP filters
use Net::LDAP::Filter; $filter = Net::LDAP::Filter->new( $filter_str );
Create a new object and parse FILTER.
Parse FILTER. The next call to ber will return this filter encoded.
Return the data structure suitable for passing directly to Convert::ASN1 to encode a filter object.
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://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/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 --------------------------- * \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) 1997-2000 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.
$Id: Filter.pod,v 1.2 2000/05/09 16:09:49 gbarr Exp $
To install Net::LDAP, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::LDAP
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::LDAP
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.