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TheBiker
TheBiker

Reputation: 183

Extract OU name from LDAP path with Regex

I have an LDAP path similar to the one below, I want to extract the text between the first OU= and the comma that follows it, in the example below the text I need is "Support Group". Can anyone suggest a Regex to do this?

CN=James Regus,OU=Support Group,DC=Internal,DC=Com

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2967

Answers (1)

Trott
Trott

Reputation: 70125

This regular expression will put the text between the OU= and the next , into $1 or \1 or what have you depending on how the language handles such things.

/\bOU=(.*?),/

(This assumes your regular expression parser supports \b as a shortcut for 0-length wordbreak matching.)

I don't know what programming language you're using, but let's say it's JavaScript. Here's some sample code:

var regex = /\bOU=(.*?),/;
var ldapPath = 'CN=James Regus,OU=Support Group,DC=Internal,DC=Com';    
var match = ldapPath.match(regex);
alert(match[1]);

Upvotes: 2

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