use Net::LDAP::LDIF; my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new('nejms.txt', 'r', onerror=>'die'); while (!$ldif->eof) { my $entry = $ldif->read_entry; print $entry->get_value('cn'), "=", $entry->get_value('orclnetdescstring'), "\n"; } $ldif->done;