Hello, boftx! How's the weather down in TX?
Hey. Your answer makes me feel better, that I can't quite follow it. :)
Good guess. But not quite. It's actually a number validation; which you pretty much guessed. But it's not for CAPTCHA, it's a SERIAL number. :) No. I'm NOT attempting to thwart some PAY-FOR application. I found a link to an application I thought I'd (and others might) like to use. Problem was, the site, and application had apparently been abandoned. So, after much detective work. I was able to get ahold of the author, and inquired as to what it would take to continue development on the application. He said I could have it, but on the condition that it was AS-IS, and WITHOUT ANY support from him.
Apparently he'd used it for income, but got a real mucky-muck job, and position in a big mucky-muck firm. So had no more interest, or time for it.
Well I accepted his offer, and have been working with it since.

I simply nuked the serial function(s). But they seemed so clever (to me, anyway) that I thought it'd be well worth the effort to understand it better.

So here I am, asking/begging. :)

Thanks for the reply, boftx!

--Chris

¡λɐp ʇɑəɹ⅁ ɐ əʌɐɥ puɐ ʻꜱdləɥ ꜱᴉɥʇ ədoH

In reply to Re^2: I'm struggling with a function, and hoping for some insight -- not strictly Perl by taint
in thread I'm struggling with a function, and hoping for some insight -- not strictly Perl by taint

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