Re^5: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval)

print Substitution("canned","working"); #canned
print Substitution("canned","compiles",'$1 $2','g'); #canned
print Substitution("canned","flawed",'$1 $2'); #canned
print Substitution("canned",".*",`ls`); #first directory entry
`touch down`;
print Substitution("canned",".*",`rm down`); #deleted file
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Re^6: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2016 at 06:51 UTC
Heheh, what do you think that proves?	[reply]
Re^7: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval) by trippledubs (Deacon) on Sep 01, 2016 at 12:04 UTC
lol at first I was really excited, but no you are right it doesn't prove anything because $rep has to be a string. But there should be a way to do what I'm trying else the module authors and yourself would not couch your words!	[reply]
Re^8: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2016 at 19:14 UTC
lol at first I was really excited, but no you are right it doesn't prove anything because $rep has to be a string. But there should be a way to do what I'm trying else the module authors and yourself would not couch your words! You're confused , see Re^2: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form [SOLVED]	[reply]