[ale] One for the Perl Gurus

[fletch at phydeaux.org]

> I need a good way to sanitize the script other than to do a whole bunch
> of :
>
> $Target =~ s/\./\\./;

perldoc -f quotemeta

That'll automatically do the substitution for any regex metacharacters. 
The problem is that you're basically accepting "code" (in the form of a
regex) from untrusted users.

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