Re: Help with an integer search?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 10:57 AM 2002-11-07, Austin Conger (IT) wrote:
>For days, I have been trying to understand how to do a search based on an integer value.
>Initially I thought doing this search filter (itemnumber<=12) and having my attribute defined as such in my schema file would do it.

No ORDERING rule, assertion Undefined.

>attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.14939.1.3.1.2 NAME 'itemnumber'
>        DESC 'number for item in ldap'
>        EQUALITY integerMatch
>        SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27
>        SINGLE-VALUE )
> 
>Then I find later that its actually stored as a decimal representation.
>
>6.16. INTEGER
>
>   ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.27 DESC 'INTEGER' )
>
>   Values in this syntax are encoded as the decimal representation of
>   their values, with each decimal digit represented by the its
>   character equivalent. So the number 1321 is represented by the
>   character string "1321".I gues I am alittle confused as to how I perform such an integer search?  Is this possible?
> 
>I am running OpenLDAP 2.1.5 on Solaris 8 with BerkeleyDB 4.1
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Austin
>
>