Re: Including whitespace in ldap searches

[John Borwick <borwicjh@wfu.edu>]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> > At 10:39 AM 9/2/2004, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > > Francis Swasey wrote:
> > > > Of course the last three DN's should be found.  Spaces are not 
> > > > significant in the Name attribute matching rules.
> > >
> > > Are there string matching rules where spaces are significant? Is so, 
> > > what are they?
> >
> > For octet strings, there are.  But I am not aware of any for
> > character-based string syntaxes such as Directory String.
>
> Thanks for the answer. Maybe we will have to add a digit to all the 7 
> digit strings, or use a different filter.

We have some strings that we need to delimit; for this purpose we use 
the character '$': "Server $ Information Systems".  We can then search 
for "Server $*".

HTH,
John
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