Re: [Off Topic] Dumb Perl Question...
> perldoc perlsec is your friend! :)
>
> Bottom line is that globs are *always* tainted, as is anything that
> relies on shell processing (csh being how globbing is done).
Yep, I realise this, but what I didn't have is an alternative. There's
lots of info on de-tainting user input, but basically zero and globbing
except to say that it's all tainted <sigh>.
> Try using File::Find, that should let you get data in an untainted manner.
This is however what I needed to know about, and has solved my problem...
thanks.
Adam.
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