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Re: importing multi line fields
Some where way back in time, I came across the example of using the '$ '
as a seperator in multi line fields, I'm not sure whether in was in the
rfc's but I think most clients tend to handle this. - netscape / outlook
etc.
eg.
address: 1 a road, $ a town $ a county $ a country
regards
alan
Chris Ridd wrote:
>
> 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
> > ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
>
> 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
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