Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:29:39 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Jack Stone <antennex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl script help Message-ID: <43D7D1A3.8070008@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F82AA1E19FEB39B4AF3033CC120@phx.gbl> References: <BAY106-F82AA1E19FEB39B4AF3033CC120@phx.gbl>
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Jack Stone wrote:
> I'm using an old (2001) canned perl script to manage questions to my
> tech site. It is of big help since it can answer common questions from
> templates and a real time saver.
First, this isn't really a FreeBSD question, so you may certainly
have better luck getting it answered in a Perl-oriented forum (or
best, the help forum or the original author of the script in question).
[snip]
> Is there any way to insert the same type of tests on those original
> copies in the storage as "*.ftf" files and just delete them so they
> aren't there when the question manager program is loaded??
If I were you I would be looking at the Perl code just before those
lines that you quoted in your original message. Inspect the content
of $FORM{message} earlier in the process and use Perl pattern
matching to see if it contains taboo content. Something like
if ($FORM{message} =~ /taboophrase/) { msgisjunk; }
Here I've made up a subroutine name "msgisjunk" that would get
executed if "taboophrase" was found in the message. You will need to
figure out what is the appropriate thing to do in that situation
(might be simply "exit;"), and you may well need a more complex
comparison operation, depending on what is normally the format and
content of the message data.
Basically though, the idea is that if bad content is found then you
should skip entirely the section of code that goes about writing the
file and sending the email. If the bad content is neither delivered
nor stored in a file in the first place, then you don't need any
other filtering or deletion to occur.
If you don't know much Perl, the numerous Perl books at www.ora.com
are generally great reading, IMHO. Start with _Learning Perl_.
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Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
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