Error deleting object from AD ising Win32::OLE

alexsc01 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I get this error when using Win32::OLE; to delete an object. The problem is name of the OU "Ulkomailta tulevat vaihto-opiskelijat/opettajat" which contains a '/' and a '-' I assume this is what's causing the problem. Same script works fine with other OU's, and same user can remove the user from AD using ADSI edit so I don't think it's a permission problem.

Win32::OLE(0.1711) error 0x80005000
    after character 0 in "LDAP://OU=Students,OU=Users,OU=Ulkomailta tu
+levat
vaihto-opiskelijat/opettajat,DC=humak,DC=local" at C:\test.pl line 61.
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Line 61 is $objParent = Win32::OLE->GetObject("LDAP://$ldap_found_active") ; Anyone have an idea what I do should do to the name before passing it to Win32::OLE->GetObject ? Changing the name of the OU is not viable.

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Re: Error deleting object from AD ising Win32::OLE by poj (Abbot) on Mar 15, 2016 at 13:36 UTC
From reading this characters-to-escape , you could try `$ldap_found_active =~ s{/}{\\/}g;` poj	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Error deleting object from AD ising Win32::OLE by alexsc01 (Novice) on Mar 15, 2016 at 16:34 UTC
Yes thanks worked fine, so the / was causing a problem.	[reply]