[Thamesvalley-pm] using third party perl scripts

Ismail, Rafiq (IT) Rafiq.Ismail at MorganStanley.com
Wed Oct 17 06:30:56 PDT 2007


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> From: thamesvalley-pm-bounces+rafiq.ismail=ms.com at pm.org 
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> On Behalf Of Greg Matthews
> Sent: 17 October 2007 12:37
> To: ThamesValley Perl Mongers
> Subject: Re: [Thamesvalley-pm] using third party perl scripts
> 
> Ismail, Rafiq (IT) wrote:
> >>> do EXPR
> >> its not clear from the docs whether you can capture output 
> from "do" 
> >> (as I do above with the pipe).
> > 
> > Short answer no.  However you can capture the output from STDOUT:
> 
> thanks for the various advice. I must admit I was concerned 
> with using "do". I was thinking about using it for config 
> file slurping but was wondering what would happen if some 
> malicious/ignorant user had write access to the config 
> file... presumably they could execute any perl code they 
> wanted as the userid that the main script is running as?

Not a good idea.  I tend to use XML::Simple for basic xml config files.
Have a look on cpan for 'Config'  there's a host of stuff out there.
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