Re: What's your favourite method of untainting?

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WTF is up with the fourth option? It's got a syntax error, and I can't see how it could possibly work.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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Re^2: What's your favourite method of untainting? by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 16, 2005 at 16:29 UTC
Whoops - that's a typo. It should be: `($foo) = ($val =~ /^(?!.).$/);` [download] and the essence of it is, that it never accepts any incoming data (albeit in a roundabout way).	[reply] [d/l]

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