Hi Monkees,

I'm having trouble getting File::Find to run in taint mode - here's my File::Find, what am I doing wrong? (I'm perfectly happy with the default untaint_pattern, but an example of this code with an untaint_pattern would be welcome).

  find({wanted => \&wanted, untaint => 1}, @twikipaths);
  sub wanted{
    if(/.+\.doc$/i){
      if($cs && /($searchterm)/){
        push @files, $File::Find::name;
      }
      elsif(!$cs && /($searchterm)/i){
        push @files, $File::Find::name;
      }
      elsif(!$tonly){
        open(DOC, $File::Find::name)||
          die "Couldn't open $File::Find::name:$!\n";
        THISFILE: while(my $line = <DOC>){
          $line =~ s/([^\011\012\015\040-\176])//g;
          if($cs && $line =~ /($searchterm)/){
            close DOC;
            push @files, $File::Find::name;
            last THISFILE;
          }
          elsif(!$cs && $line =~ /($searchterm)/i){
            close DOC;
            push @files, $File::Find::name;
            last THISFILE;
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

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Thanks...

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to File::Find and untaint by Melly

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