Dear fellow monks,

I have looked at the documentation with Net::LDAP and have been able to come up with the following solution so far. This seems kind of clunky to me and I would really like to find a better way to use the information returned from the LDAP search. 

use Net::LDAP;

$id='1234';
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new($host,$port) or die "$@";
$ldap->bind;
$mesg = $ldap->search (base => $base,
            filter => "employee_number=$id",
            attrs => [firstname,lastname,employee_number,department,ci
+ty]);

my $max = $mesg->count;

# put into a local hash for later use...
for($i=0;$i<$max;$i++){
  my $entry = $mesg->entry($i);
  foreach my $attr($entry->attributes){
    my $printstring =  join("\| ",$attr, $entry->get($attr));
    my ($attrkey,$attrvalue) = split(/\|/,$printstring);
    $userinfo{$attrkey}=$attrvalue;
  }
}

# test the hash...
foreach $key(keys %userinfo){
  print "$key\t $userinfo{$key}\n";
}

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Mick

In reply to Is there a better solution: data from Net::LDAP? by mrmick

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