Re: Substrings any match on an empty string

["Vithalprasad Gaitonde" <gvithalprasad@novell.com>]

Wouldn't this just be equivalent to a presence filter on that
attribute.
We should have a statement in the LDAP protocols draft saying that the
filter that you describe is equivalent to a presence match.
Prasad

>>> "Ramsay, Ron" <Ron.Ramsay@ca.com> 7/8/2003 10:34:23 AM >>>
Hi all,

Does anyone have an answer to this question:

If I specify a filter of type 'substrings' where the substrings contain
only an 'any' with a zero-length value, should I return all entries
containing the attribute?

It seems to me that the empty string is a substring of all strings.

I've looked in RFC 2251, X.511 and X.520 but have not seen a statement
which I could interpret as answering this question.

Thanks for your help,

Ron