Re: Run a variable as a line of code?

Did you try $string =~s/$match/$replace/g;?

You can easily read the $match and $replace values from a file and it is less dangerous than using eval (who knows what someone might have put in that file you just eval-ed?)

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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Re^2: Run a variable as a line of code? by hardburn (Abbot) on Apr 04, 2006 at 16:39 UTC
If you're worried about someone putting Bad Things in your data file, then you'd need to worry about `?{CODE}` just as much as `eval STRING`. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Run a variable as a line of code? by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 05, 2006 at 06:15 UTC
Indeed, you are right and therefore I said less dangerous as it would be marginally easier to filter out "bad" code or recognize "good" code in my suggested approach than in a file to be `eval`-ed. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l]