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

Christopher Bongaarts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.ldap
Organization University of Minnesota
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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...

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