Re^7: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form (user supplied regex substitution without eval)

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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!

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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]

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