Re: ber_scanf and ber_printf strangeness

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Szombathelyi György wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm developing kldap, a Qt wrapper for LDAP-functions. When I tested ber_scanf 
> and ber_printf functions, I found this strangeness:
> Encode a sequence of octet strings via ber_printf
> ber_printf(ber,"{v}",list_of_strings);
> But decoding only succeeds if I use the following scanf formats:
> ber_scanf(ber,"v",...) - yes, without '{}', or
> ber_scanf(ber,"{ooo}") 
> As I read the ber_scanf man page, 'v' format actually decodes a sequence of 
> octet strings, so my examples are correct according to these. But the code 
> example on the end shows that '{v}' should be used. So what is the right way?

It looks like the manpage example is wrong.

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