in reply to User regexps

Read perlre and look for where it talks about the (?{code}) construct and you tell me if they can do any damage :-)

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Re: User regexps
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 14, 2004 at 15:33 UTC
    Now, tell us how the user is going to put in a (?{code}) construct if use re 'eval'; hasn't been enabled.

    Now, running regexes supplied by a possible hostile user can give problems - but the problems are not the possibility of running arbitrary code; at least not by default.

    Abigail