Re^2: hard-to-understand taint error

Changed the for statement in the previous sequence to:

  for (@dels) {s!(.+)!DB_DIREC."/$1"!e}
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Now everything goes through a regular expression and the same error results.

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Re^3: hard-to-understand taint error by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 18, 2009 at 20:17 UTC
As you have found out yourself, you must take the captured data outside of the regex in order to untaint it. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]

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Re^3: hard-to-understand taint error
by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 18, 2009 at 20:17 UTC

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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