Re: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form UPDATE

OK, is this any better?:

   if (length ($request{'find'}) > 0 ) {
       $find=$request{'find'};
       $replace=$request{'replace'};
        while ($line =~ m{(.*)$find(.*)}){
          $line = $1 . $replace . $2;
        }
   }
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Nick

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Re^2: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form UPDATE by hippo (Archbishop) on Sep 04, 2016 at 12:06 UTC
Yes, that looks a good deal better - assuming you are running in taint mode. Now try and break it. :-)	[reply]
Re^3: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form UPDATE by Linicks (Scribe) on Sep 04, 2016 at 13:04 UTC
Yes, running with -T option. All looks good, haven't broken anything yet ;) It is perfect for what I need, as it will only be simple substitutions required anyway (when they happen) just to keep the parser working when at work. Thanks everybody for their help and input on this subject, I learnt a lot Nick	[reply]