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in reply to Re^3: request for review: file reading security
in thread request for review: file reading security

His regular expression does the job well. It strips everything until the last /

$req = 'blah/../../topsecretpages/page.html'; $req =~ s/^.*\///; print $req; __END__ page.html

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