Re: HELP PLS: $ent->get_text and LDAP Weirdness

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 06:12, Dirk van der Walt wrote:
> I  think I'm losing it......
>
> Here's my problem:
>
> Upon filling in a value on an entry, the user clicks the
> button.
>
> I go to a sub and take the value of the entry and feed it
> to the Net::LDAP object, as a filter.
>
> It hangs!
>
> If I put a print statement in the sub, I can see the value
> is correct, but it does not like coming from the entry
> widget!
>
> If I set the variable manually to the filled in value ( ie
> $uname = "dvdwalt") it works 100%!
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> I've tried connecting to slapd and NetWare LDAP servers,
> still the same results!
>
> Why does it not like the ?my $uname = $ent->get_text;?
> statement?

the text/scalar returned from get_text will be utf8-ified and (maybe)
when you set it manually it is not. if that's the case perhaps Net::LDAP
(or the server on the other end of the line) doesn't play well with
UTF8. only a guess though.

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-rm
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