man Net::LDAP::Filter () - representation of LDAP filters
NAME
Net::LDAP::Filter - representation of LDAP filters
SYNOPSIS
use Net::LDAP::Filter;
$filter = Net::LDAP::Filter->new( $filter_str );
DESCRIPTION
The Net::LDAP::Filter object lets you directly manipulate LDAP filters without worrying about the string representation and all the associated escaping mechanisms.
CONSTRUCTOR
- new ( FILTER )
- Create a new object and parse FILTER.
METHODS
- parse ( FILTER )
- Parse FILTER. The next call to ber will return this filter encoded.
- as_string
- Return the filter in text form.
- print ( [ FH ] )
- Print the text representation of the filter to FH, or the currently selected output handle if FH is not given.
FILTER SYNTAX
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
---------------------------
* \2a, \*
( \28, \(
) \29, \)
\ \5c, \\
NUL \00
SEE ALSO
Net::LDAP, Other online documentation
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This document is based on a document originally written by Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz>.
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
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COPYRIGHT
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.