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LDAP Search Filters
524 Netscape Directory Server Administrator’s Guide • August 2002
Boolean expressions are evaluated in the following order:
• Innermost to outermost parenthetical expressions first
• All expressions from left to right
Search Filter Examples
The following filter searches for entries containing one or more values for the
manager attribute. This is also known as a presence search:
manager=*
The following filter searches for entries containing the common name Ray Kultgen.
This is also known as an equality search:
cn=Ray Kultgen
The following filter returns all entries that do not contain the common name Ray
Kultgen:
(!(cn=Ray Kultgen))
The following filter returns all entries that contain a description attribute that
contains the substring
X.500
:
description=*X.500*
The following filter returns all entries whose organizational unit is Marketing and
whose description field does not contain the substring
X.500
:
(&(ou=Marketing)(!(description=*X.500*)))
Table B-2
Search Filter Boolean Operators
Operator Symbol Description
AND
& All specified filters must be true for the statement to be true. For example:
(&(filter)(filter)(filter)...)
OR
| At least one specified filter must be true for the statement to be true. For example:
(|(filter)(filter)(filter)...)
NOT
! The specified statement must not be true for the statement to be true. Only one filter
is affected by the
NOT
operator. For example:
(!(filter))