Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is > submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file is > tab delimited. > Now picture the first person going to the form and filling everything out, > including all checkboxes and radio buttons. > Now the second person comes along and chooses not to fill in a radio > button. When that form's information is sent to the script it is missing > that radio buttons field name and therefore misses that tab, and all the > results get skewed. Information becomes invalid, people get unhappy, > heads are lost, cats and dogs start getting married, and all the worlds > wine turns into bags of turnips. > In other words, not terribly fun.
Sounds hilarious to me. And it sounds like just the sort of pain that you would deserve if you didn't sanity-check your input. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Vegetables are what food eats _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
