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in thread Site Search perlscript and security

IMHO, \w and \s are too liberal in what they accept. Chances are that your search will not need Unicode, and \w in particular is going to accept that if your perl has Unicode support. Unless you know you need Unicode, it's probably better to use the explicit character class [A-Za-z0-9].

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Re^4: Site Search perlscript and security
by steelrose (Scribe) on Nov 30, 2005 at 14:18 UTC
    A good point. Since the data I plan to search contains very few non A-Z a-z 0-9 characters that would need to be searchable, I can just add those characters to the string (like the e with acute é mark)

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