I have the following code (a helper sub for Net::LDAP): 
# Perform an LDAP query, returning results in a hash.
sub fetch {
    my $self = shift;
    %{$self->{'ARG'}} = @_;

    my ($r);

    my $result = $self->{'LDAP'}->search(
        base    => $self->{'ARG'}->{'source'},
        filter  => $self->{'ARG'}->{'filter'}
    );

    foreach my $entry ($result->all_entries()) {
        map {
            push my @a, $entry->get_value($_);
            if ($a[1]) {
                $r->{$entry->dn()}->{$_} = [ $entry->get_value($_) ];
            } else {
                $r->{$entry->dn()}->{$_} = $entry->get_value($_);
            }
        } $entry->attributes();
    }

    return $r;
}

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...which works perfectly, and does exactly what I want. My only problem is that the assignment of values to a temporary array (@a) and then testing whether $a[1] exists as a way to tell whether $entry->get_value is returning multiple values or not seems... well, clumsy.

Is there a better way?

-s.

In reply to Returning single or multiple values? by sschneid

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