But this is beside the point. It is reasonably straightforward to untaint data, prior to checking for SQL type compatibility. my $inputstring =~ s/^(\w+)$//; my $username = $1;

Care must be taken though that all strings are received as UTF-8, otherwise \w matches only ASCII letters and not only Mr. 毛泽东 but also Assunção Verônica Álvares, Renée Bäcker and Kryštůfek Březový would get thrown to the "Go away, 33vu1 haxx0r!" page if they used their proper names spelled properly :)

In reply to Re^2: DBI and stored procedures by mbethke
in thread DBI and stored procedures by Anonymous Monk

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