Re: [tlug] Re: tlug] Security question with grep/e...

["Josh Glover" <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Tim Hurman:

> 4) your security problems are simplified,
>     die unless ($user_str =~ m/^[\w.]+$/);

Why the "." in the regular expression? Is that a typo? "." matches an awful
lot, including quotes. Wouldn't a better regexp be: m/^[\w\s]+$/?

Or am I missing something here?

-- 
Josh Glover

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