Re: Problem with approx research and wildcards

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

xavier toto writes:
> it's ok, but when I use some wildcards I have an error like this:
> #ldapsearch (title~=toto*)
>
> ldapsearch: ldap_search_ext: Bad search filter (-7)
>
> I don't understand why.

Because the LDAP standard defines approximate and substring search are
two different filter types.  Thus they do not mix.  The closest you can
come is something like
 (|(title~=toto)(title=toto*))
which matches both titles that are approximately equal to "toto"
and titles which start with "toto".

-- 
Hallvard