What happens if you untaint the email address? I don't have a mysql to test against, and didn't feel like changing the database aspects. But to untaint the email entry of your hash, you just need to follow the general rules for laundering tainted data. I would assume that once it's untainted, the TEST would give 5 again (untested).

Example of untainting an email address hash entry:

C:\Users\peter.jones\Downloads\TempData\perl>perl -T -M5.012 -Mwarning
+s -MScalar::Util=tainted -le "my %h = (email => $ARGV[0]); print tain
+ted($h{email}); $h{email} =~ m/\b([[:graph:]]+@[[:graph:]]+)\b/g and 
+$h{email} = $1; print tainted($h{email});" me@example
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(you should probably pick a stronger/more-accurate regex than I used for "valid email address"...)

In reply to Re^11: Recalcitrant placeholders by pryrt
in thread Recalcitrant placeholders by Bod

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