Re^2: Populating the array, what am I doing wrong.

What in the world did you mean to be doing there? Well
I was trying to populate the @fields with the selected objects from the ldapsearch

The ldapsearch, if you do it outside of the script, returns with:

cn=t43311,ou=subscribers,ou=users,ou=country,ou=domains,ou=cz,ou=chell
+o
jrMailBoxId=poohbear@woods.com
jrMailboxAliasStore=5485113511
jrPWPUID=poohbear
jrPWPUserPrefs=poohbear
jrUserFriendlyID=poohbear
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but all that seems to get populated in the array is dn jrMailBoxId jrMailboxAliasStore jrPWPUID jrPWPUsersPrefs jrUserFriendlyID

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Re^3: Populating the array, what am I doing wrong. by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 25, 2008 at 14:57 UTC
Ok, well you're going about that all wrong. To execute an external program and get its output into an array of lines, use `qx()`: `@fields = qx( /opt/apache/1.3.27/cgi-bin/cspireutils/ldapsearch -h 172 +.30.58.243 -p 389 -D $dirsrv -w 'passwd' -b ou=subscribers,ou=users,o +u=prague,ou=domains,ou=cz,ou=domains,o=chello cn=$sid dn jrMailBoxId +jrMailboxAliasStore jrPWPUID jrPWPUserPrefs jrUserFriendlyID );` [download] then you can easily iterate over the lines with `foreach`. Alternatively, you could use the `while(<>)` construct to read from a pipe connected to the output of an external program: `open P, $command # as above or die "can't run $command - $!"; while (<P>)` [download] but note specially the use of an explicit filehandle inside the angle brackets. Omit that, and you'd be reading from stdin. If you assign to `@fields` as above, you'll be overwriting the array of values you orginally assigned to it. Is that what you intended? A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Populating the array, what am I doing wrong.
by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 25, 2008 at 14:57 UTC

Ok, well you're going about that all wrong. To execute an external program and get its output into an array of lines, use qx():

@fields = qx( /opt/apache/1.3.27/cgi-bin/cspireutils/ldapsearch -h 172
+.30.58.243 -p 389 -D $dirsrv -w 'passwd' -b ou=subscribers,ou=users,o
+u=prague,ou=domains,ou=cz,ou=domains,o=chello cn=$sid dn jrMailBoxId 
+jrMailboxAliasStore jrPWPUID jrPWPUserPrefs jrUserFriendlyID );
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foreach

Alternatively, you could use the while(<>) construct to read from a pipe connected to the output of an external program:

open P, $command  # as above
  or die "can't run $command - $!";
while (<P>)
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If you assign to @fields as above, you'll be overwriting the array of values you orginally assigned to it. Is that what you intended?

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