Re: Question in perl syntax

2002-05-14 Thread Jim C.
And lets not forget to remove all nulls from the user input. Nulls can be used to trick the script into thinking its getting valid input and its usually good practice to just strip em. It certainly can't hurt anything and most certainly can help everything. - Jim $s_field =~ s/\0//g; On Wed,

Re: Question in perl syntax

2002-05-14 Thread Jim C.
My last post is assuming that the script is cgi. Not that it would hurt anything if the script wasn't CGI and in fact, could still legit'ly be helpful and prudent. - Jim On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 00:12, drieux wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 06:57 , Bill Akins wrote: > > > How about somet

Re: Books

2002-05-14 Thread Jim C.
There was a lot of stuff removed from Learning Perl 3rd Ed that was in 2nd. It has been kind of cool to see what was removed. I guess they thought that some of the items were a: not important or relevant b: more advanced or c: deprecated (tm). I haven't seen anything added to 3rd that wasn't in

Re: Books

2002-05-16 Thread Jim C.
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:50:52 -0500 > From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: bob burdic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Books > > Jim