Splitting an LDAP DN into its constiuent parts (groups)

Hi, long time, no see...

I can do this manually simply enough with a quick split and a map, but I suspect that the problem is common enough and possibly more complicated than I first thought to have been solved by a module. I cannot find such a module; I've looked at LDAP::uri and Net::LDAP, but I can't find anything that does what I think I want

I have a plain text string, containing an LDAP dn. It looks similar to this

cn=John Bull,ou=admins,ou=technical,ou=Staff,dc=example,dc=com

and I want to parse that such that I can easily answer the questions "Is user $foo in group $bar?", "Show me all the members of group $baz". Is there a module which does it for me?

[Anonymous Monk]

Checking http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-ldap/MANIFEST for dn i find

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.4001/t/01canon_dn.t and I see canonical_dn, which looks useful, so I grep for it,

http://search.cpan.org/grep?cpanid=GBARR&release=perl-ldap-0.4001&string=canonical_dn&i=1&n=1&C=0 and I see ldap_explode_dn, and that is what you want,

Net::LDAP::Util#ldap_explode_dn

[davis]

Ah, I knew that it would have been well solved already. That looks perfect for my needs; thank you.