Re: importing multi line fields

[Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@isode.com>]

On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:41:31 EST, Ben Collins wrote:
> I am trying to seed a database by creating an ldif file. One of the
> fields in the entries is going to contain output from an email. What
> conversions (I'm using perl) do I need to perform in order for it to
> not confuse ldif2ldbm with the line feeds and all?
> 
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> Ben Collins <b.m.collins@larc.nasa.gov>                  Debian GNU/Linux
> UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc.                 bcollins@debian.org
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CRs and LFs are "unsafe" in LDIF values, so you need to base-64 encode 
them as per the LDIF drafts. Look at the MIME::Base64 module. You may 
also need to wrap long lines as well, but there's more than one way to 
do that :-)

The Net::LDAP package (perl-ldap-0.09) from CPAN has an LDIF module you 
could look at too.

Chris