Gents,

I have one problem with Perl, so I would appreciate if you could help to find the best solution for that.

In my company we use SunOne LDAP. I want to connect to cn=changelog and read all entries in this node.

Structure of one entry looks like that:

dn: changeNumber=123,cn=changelog
objectClass: top
objectClass: changelogentry
...something not important....
changes: BASE64_TEXT

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When I try to read ($entry->get_value("changes")) and decode changes, then I received something like this:

replace: A
A: new_value
-
add: NEW_VAR
NEW_VAR: ABC
-
delete: ABC
-
replace: history
history: 1
history: 2
history: 3
-

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In my case on the output I want to get (single line):

ADD: NEW_VAR=ABC|REPLACE: A=NEW_VALUE, HISTORY=1,2,3|DELETE: ABC.

Is there any simple way to "PARSE" changes value? Unfortunately, type of this value is string..

In reply to Parsing of LDAP entry by mariusz

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