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kyoshu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

in one of mine scripts i use File::Slurp and i'm not sure if it is safe to use it for writting/appending to file without checking user entered data?

example of code:

use strict;
use CGI;
use File::Slurp;
my $somedata = $q->param('somedata');
write_file('somefile.txt',{append=>1},$somedata);
...