On Jun 11, JupiterHost.Net said: >Randy W. Sims wrote: > >> A better solution would be to allow only a subset of metacharacters, >> escaping everything else. This would requre much more effort, but would >> be safer. Perhaps there is a module that does something like this? If >> not, there should be. > >I'm looking at the Regex:: modules but havn't seen anything yet (search >for Regex:: on search.cpan.org and click on any link in the results, >mine go now where???) , also perldoc perlre has some things about this >but for now I think it'll do me :)
When I finish writing Regexp::Parser, that seems like a good idea... the ability to parse a regex and strip out (or auto-quote) a specific set of metacharacters. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN ID: PINYAN [Need a programmer? If you like my work, let me know.] <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
