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I'd really love to see a "Perl Style and Security Coding Guide" (hopefully with a better name) that covered all of these things. For myself, I have written a lot of garbage scripts that exist out there on the net right now without -w, use strict, taint, etc. I didn't know better when I was starting to lean Perl because there were no resources (especially no single resource) that covered these. The books I learned from never even touched on tainting, or if they did no "Why this is important" info was given. Kickstart
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Re: Re: Re: Some advice on another's scripts
by emilford (Friar) on Jun 26, 2002 at 04:44 UTC
    I'd have to agree with Kickstarts's comment 100%. I too have coded several Perl scripts that get the job done, but not necessarily in the best way. After having hung out on PM.org, I've picked up things like -w and use strict, but I feel there is much more to learn before my code is to be considered "well written". I learned Perl from several different books and am still continuing along the path of Perl wisdom. It would be great to have a tutorial on proper Perl style, security issues, modules etc. I know I'd reference it at least once a day! Monks?
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Re^3: Some advice on another's scripts
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2002 at 15:29 UTC
    Ovid's excellent CGI course is much of what you ask for; I try to plug it at every opportunity.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      (wow, I am such a geek)...

      I would like to take this on vacation with me to give it the attention it deserves. Required reading, absolutely. :)

      Now...off to find a leech script to get the whole thing onto my laptop!

      Kickstart

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        wget works admirably. :)

        Update: Ok, no -m then. I'm no authority on wget quite yet. :)

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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