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LDAP_FRIENDLY(3)
NAME
  ldap_friendly_name, ldap_free_friendlymap - LDAP unfriendly to friendly
  name mapping routine

SYNOPSIS
  #include <ldap.h>

  typedef struct ldap_friendly {
	  char *lf_unfriendly;
	  char *lf_friendly;
  } LDAPFriendlyMap;

  char *ldap_friendly_name(filename, name, map)
  char *filename;
  char *name;
  LDAPFriendlyMap **map;

  void ldap_free_friendlymap(map)
  LDAPFriendlyMap **map;

DESCRIPTION
  This routine is used to map one set of strings to another.  Typically, this
  is done for country names, to map from the two-letter country codes to
  longer more readable names.  The mechanism is general enough to be used
  with other things, though.

  filename is the name of a file containing the unfriendly to friendly
  mapping, name is the unfriendly name to map to a friendly name, and map is
  a result-parameter that should be set to NULL on the first call.  It is
  then used to hold the mapping in core so that the file need not be read on
  subsequent calls.

  For example:

	  LDAPFriendlyMap *map = NULL;

	  printf( "unfriendly %s => friendly %s\n", name,
	      ldap_friendly_name( "/usr/internet/openldap/share/ldapfriendly", name, &map ) );

  The mapping file should contain lines like this:
  unfriendlyname\tfriendlyname.	 Lines that begin with a '#' character are
  comments and are ignored.

  The ldap_free_friendlymap() call is used to free structures allocated by
  ldap_friendly_name() when no more calls to ldap_friendly_name() are to be
  made.

ERRORS
  NULL is returned by ldap_friendly_name() if there is an error opening
  filename, or if the file has a bad format, or if the map parameter is NULL.

FILES
  /usr/internet/openldap/share/ldapfriendly.conf

SEE ALSO
  ldap(3)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
  (http://www.openldap.org/).	     OpenLDAP is derived from University of
  Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.

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