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

Graham Barr wrote:
> 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.

It doesn't present any syntactic difficulties for old perls (it will 
compile and execute the statement; it just won't store or read any 
data), so perhaps having a runtime version check that carps an 
appropriate warning would be appropriate.

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