Re: Dumping Net::LDAP::Entry to a string

On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Christopher Bongaarts wrote:
> Graham Barr wrote:
> 
>> Also, anything that can dump to a filehandle can dump to a string.
>>  open(my $fh,">",\my $buffer);
>>  then pass $fh as the file handle
> 
> Only in perl >= 5.8.  Perl 5.6 and earlier won't support this syntax, so  I would advise against using this to implement and ldif() method unless you are OK with breaking compatibility with older perls...

5.8.0 was released nearly 8 years ago. Anyone who is still using a version of perl that old will not mind using an old version of Net::LDAP IMO.

Graham.