Thank you for the reply.

It's a private page used by me and a co-worker at work to run a football competition every week for work mates.

The data is scraped (manual copy 'n' paste) from a newspaper site and as the data now is produced on the fly, it is in a real mess - my code 'as is' now parses this and puts it in the format we require

Now, the issue is, every week or so, they change something, and my parser breaks (which can be fixed easily when I am at home!), but I am at work, so need a way to add new subsitutions on the fly otherwise all hell breaks lose at work when the results are late!

Basically, it's just a fail safe 'in case' and NO security issues at all raise their heads as it is only me doing the input :)

Thanks, Nick

In reply to Re^2: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks
in thread Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks

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