[Esd-l] ANN: Sanitizer 1.133 released

[John D. Hardin]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> >Now truncate stripped and poisoned filespecs at space to allow for comments
> >in the poisoned- and stripped-filenames lists - if you are poisoning or
> >stripping filespecs containing spaces, MAKE SURE you use \s instead of a
> >literal space!
> 
> Will "\ " work?

No, the parser isn't that sophisticated. It does "s/\s.*$//"

> Also, which Perl metacharacters (e.g. \w) work?

., * and ? don't work - they have been remapped from RE semantics to
file glob semantics because of the context they're being used in:

	. -> \.  (a literal period)
	* -> .*  (zero or more of anything)
	? -> .   (any character)

Apart from that, everything else *should* work because it's not being
altered; however I haven't tried much that's very complicated apart
from the (?...) examples that are in the recommended poison list.

> Oh, and do backreferences work?

I haven't tried them. Can you give me a useful example of a
backreference in a filespec?

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