opends/src/server/org/opends/server/tools/LDAPCompare.java
@@ -538,7 +538,10 @@ catch (ParseException e) { assert debugException(CLASS_NAME, "main", e); attributeVal = remainder.getBytes(); int msgID = MSGID_COMPARE_CANNOT_BASE64_DECODE_ASSERTION_VALUE; err.println(getMessage(msgID)); return 1; } } else if(nextChar == '<') {