If the regexps come from users, will I have a taint problem?
Unless you explicitely enable use re 'eval'; you
won't have problems where tainting can help you prevent
getting damaged - the user can't inject arbitrary code.
I am worried about intentional or unintentional ill-effects beyond an error.
And you should! No tainting is going to protect you from a
regexp that will run "forever", or that's going to exhaust
your memory or stack size in a quick fashion. There's no
easy defensive against this.
Would qr help with this? Or how about Safe ?
No, and no. Read the manual page of Safe.pm about things
Safe doesn't protect you from - the first things mentioned
are "Memory" and "CPU".
How could a user specify a regexp meaning, "Any string that does not have the phrase 'foo' in it?"
/^(?:(?!foo).)*$/s;
Abigail
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