Hello Monks!
I am able to use the following code from ldap.perl.org with user a filter to pull out a directory record. However, I am wondering if there is a more clean way to supress printing all the fields for the record found except for specific ones; such as, say "givenname" or "department" for instance. I could throw the result into an array and massage it from there but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on doing this through some better method. Basically, taking advantage of some obscure feature(at least obscure to me anyway). Something like calling an object and using it in the foreach loop which prints the "$value" variable.
Thanks very much,
csarid 

use Net::LDAP;

 $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('ldap.acme.com') or die "$@";
 $mesg = $ldap->search(
                       base   => "o=acme.com",
                       scope  => 'sub',
                       filter => "sn=smith",
                      );
  #
  # At this point the user can get the returned data as an array
  # or as a stack.
  # In this example we will use an array

  # How many entries were returned from the search
  my $max = $mesg->count; 

  for( my $index = 0 ; $index < $max ; $index++) 
  {
    my $entry = $mesg->entry($index);
    my $dn = $entry->dn; # Obtain DN of this entry

    @attrs = $entry->attributes; # Obtain attributes for this entry.
    foreach my $var (@attrs)
    {
     #get a list of values for a given attribute
     $attr = $entry->get_value( $var, asref => 1 );
     if ( defined($attr) )         
     {          
         foreach my $value ( @$attr )          
         {           
          print "$var: $value\n";  # Print each value for the attribut
+e.
         }         
     }                                                                
+       
    }
  }

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