Oops.. I made one mistake in my explanation. The structure in
question is a hash of usernames each containing another hash of the
user attributes. I'm trying to use the code to ignore an attribute in
the second-level hash.
Will that work?
On Dec 12, 2007 3:49 PM, Roman Daszczyszak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to utilize Data::Compare to compare two data structures
> containing user names and account attributes from Windows XP systems.
> Using Win32API::Net, it returns an array of usernames, which can be
> looped through to pull a hash of each users' attributes. However,
> comparing these hashes over time always results in a false match due
> to the passwordAge attribute (value is # of seconds since epoch, so
> it's always different). I tried using the ignore_hash_keys parameter
> to ignore it, but it still never matches correctly. Is there a way to
> check if the attribute is actually being ignored? Am I using it
> wrong? (I copied the line directly from the sample code on CPAN and
> just changed the variables)
>
> Code below:
> $updateUsers = Compare(\%oldUsers, \%newUsers, {
> ignore_hash_keys => [qw(passwordAge)] });
>
> It always returns a '0' (false match).
> Any ideas?
> Roman
>
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