Hello monks,

I'm trying to find the best way to get the highest uidNumber in a ldap database then return the next highest number. Below it what I have, but I feel there is a better way but I am just not seeing it. I would be grateful if someone could show me a few pointers.

sub high_id {
        my $ldap = shift;

        my $uids = $ldap->search(
                        base => "ou=People,dc=rlb3,dc=com",
                        scope => "sub",
                        filter => "uidNumber=*", 
                        attrs   => [ 'uidNumber' ],
                        );
        my @uids;
        if ($uids->count > 0) {
                foreach my $uid ($uids->all_entries) {
                        push @uids, $uid->get_value('uidNumber');
                }
        }       
        
        @uids = sort { $b <=> $a } @uids;

        my $high = $uids[0];

        return ++$high;
}

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Thanks,

rlb3

In reply to Looking for highest uidNumber in ldap by rlb3

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