Re: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

[trammell]

in reply to Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

Code to "scrub" CGI inputs:

s/\&\;\`\'\\\"\|\*\?\~\<\>\^\(\)\[\]\{\}\$\n\r//g;

[apotheon]

That belongs in the obfuscated code section, perhaps as part of a larger script full of such stuff.

[Roy Johnson]

Should those all have alternators between them? If not, it's looking for a specific string. Of course, it should use tr instead, but I presume that's why it's bad code.