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Re^2: Filtering CGI Input

by davidj (Priest)
on Apr 24, 2005 at 07:10 UTC ( [id://450893]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Filtering CGI Input
in thread Filtering CGI Input

No, it is not that simple as the following code demonstrates:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $num = "123abc"; print "valid\n" if $num > 0 && $num < 99999; exit;
This will print 'valid', even though it does not meet the OP's criteria.

Thus, if the value "123abc" is passed from a web form to a cgi script, the code you suggest will validate it. The reason for this is because when using numeric comparisons, Perl will treat any string that begins with a number as a number. This is clearly not what the OP wants.

davidj

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