Re: Opening a pipe when taint mode is enabled

Adam Jimerson wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Adam Jimerson wrote:
>>> Yea I looked it up and all I needed to do was add \s for whitespaces,
>> 
>> Which would also allow for newlines. That sounds dangerous to me, and is 
>> an example why it's not a good idea to write your own code, that allows 
>> the world to submit data to your system, before you really know what you 
>> are doing.
> 
> How would I allow for spaces but not newlines

By including a space in the regex, just as Mike showed you in another reply.
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners.cgi/2009/01/msg13364.html

> This is the reason that I am doing it so I can 
> learn, I learn better by doing so by doing this and making mistakes (and 
> fixing them) is a lot better for me than just reading about it.  Sorry but 
> reusing code from the CPAN is nice,  but doesn't really help me learn.

It depends on what it is you want to learn. In any case, a program with 
which you invite the world to submit things to your system is not a good 
learning environment.

This list is rather quiet, but make that comment on the beginners list, 
and you'll see what I mean. ;-)

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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