From: Clifford Heath <no.spam@...>
Date: 2007-04-25T08:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Retrieving Groups from a DSQUERY

anon1m0us wrote:
> I need a list of all the groups a user is part of. When I do the
> DSQuery in returns a bunch of groups. I need to capture the group
> names.
> All groups start with CN=group name and end with a comma.
> How to I capture the group name only, which starts after CN= and ends
> at the FIRST comma??

Actually it doesn't end at the first comma - you could have
a backslashed comma inside the group's CN. I recsll doing it
something like this:

group_dn ='CN=Users\, Group,OU=farnarkle'

group_cn = group_dn.sub(/CN=((:?[^\\,]|\\.)*).*/, $1)

puts group_cn

Users\, Group

This matches the name as a sequence of either a single
backslashed character, or a char that's not either
a backslash or a comma. Note that the result is still
LDAP-escaped.

Clifford Heath.