Re: Weird Regex in CGI::Cookie


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Re: Weird Regex in CGI::Cookie

by enoch (Chaplain)

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on Oct 16, 2003 at 04:39 UTC ( [id://299653]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Weird Regex in CGI::Cookie

I emailed in the following patch:

--- /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CGI/Cookie.pm
+++ /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CGI/Cookie.pm.new
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@

     my(@pairs) = split("; ?",$raw_cookie);
     foreach (@pairs) {
-      s/\s*(.*?)\s*/$1/;
+      s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//;
       if (/^([^=]+)=(.*)/) {
        $key = $1;
        $value = $2;
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