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2009/11/6 Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec@ijs.si>: > On Thursday November 5 2009 23:57:05 Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >> > # $1 and $2 become tainted >> > my(@r) = $mailbox =~ /^(.*?)(\@.*)$/ ? ($1,$2) : ($mailbox,''); > [...] >> > $nm =~ s/^aaa-(.*)$/$1/; # $nm becomes tainted > >> At 1st glance I would say that is because $1 and $2 appear in the same >> expression than the tainted $mailbox and thus become tainted, just > > I don't think that is the problem per se. > > The point is that in the s/^aaa-(.*)$/$1/ the $1 is supposed > to get assigned an entirely new value, as captured by the regexp, > and hence it should lose its taintedness flag! I totally missed the re 'taint'. apologies. yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next