>>>>> "Stanisław" == Stanisław Findeisen <s...@eisenbits.com> writes:
Stanisław> But you don't want to let them execute any code. Unless "use re 'eval'" is in scope, /$a/ is safe even if $a came from an untrusted source, as long as you limit the run-time to a few seconds or so with an alarm. (Some regex can take nearly forever to fail.) See "perldoc perlre" for more details. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
