#!/usr/bin/perl -T -- use strict; use warnings; use MIME::Base64; use Scalar::Util qw' tainted '; print 'tainted ', tainted($ENV{PATH}),"\n"; print 'enc ', tainted(encode_base64($ENV{PATH})),"\n"; print 'dec ', tainted(decode_base64(encode_base64($ENV{PATH}))),"\n"; __END__ tainted 1 enc 0 dec 0