Re: Applying a LDIF which is as string and not as file

On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Cyril Cheneson wrote:
> I have a LDAP structure (ldif format) as perl string.
>
> my $ldap_struct =<<"END";
>
> HERE MY LDIF
>
> END
>
> And I would like to apply the structure to my LDAP server.
>
> Net::LDAP::Ldif accepts file name or file handle only.
>
> Anyone has an idea how I can apply the LDIF string to LDAP?

You can use IO::Scalar or

   open(my $fh, "<", \$ldap_struct);

I forget which version of perl added the passing of a scalar ref to  
open.

Graham.