in reply to Reading and executing Perl


You can use eval, but basically that is not a good method, if your that external file is changeable by every other users. Then you have very big problem on hand(`rm -rf /` is also possible there, how you would check it?).
I think your requirement can be solved easily by adopting some other methods, not the one which you are talking about.
Vivek
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Re^2: Reading and executing Perl
by bingohighway (Acolyte) on Apr 02, 2009 at 12:20 UTC
    Unfortunately it has to be done this way. It is basically translating a preprocessor style tagging system for a lot of old code that can't be altered.
    I'll give your suggestions a try, cheers!
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      I see your point about 'rm' though. Currently I'm only allowing know tags through, hence the idea of stripping the 'if' and then using the code's own 'if'. Meaning only the logic section would be used. If that makes sense.
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