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> From GreatCircle.COM!majordomo-workers-owner Tue Jun 11 08:14:14 1996
> From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com>
> Message-Id: <199606111442.JAA14432@miaow.sps.mot.com>
> Subject: Re: Majordomo advertise/noadvertise bug?
> To: clolson@me.umn.edu (Curtis L. Olson)
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:42:09 -0500 (CDT)
> Cc: majordomo-workers@greatcircle.com
> In-Reply-To: <199606072206.RAA01260@kenai.me.umn.edu> from "Curtis L. Olson" at Jun 7, 96 05:06:25 pm
> Reply-To: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe@risc.sps.mot.com>
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Curtis L. Olson suggested:
> > I modified this line (and made a similar modification to line 894) to
> > read:
> >
> > $command = "(\$reply_addr =~ $i)";
> >
> > This made much more sense to me and seemed to work just fine.
>
Yes! We tried that here and it fixed it! We tried another suggestion,
doubling the /.*/ and it didn't seem to help.
Thank you so much. It was important to us to get that working.
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> Really?? All you did was delay the interpolation of $reply_addr until
> the eval in line 885 and remove the quoting from the substituted value
> of $reply_addr. The bare-word value of $reply_addr probably defaulted to
> a string (with no more interpolation done for the embedded '@', so that
> may have made it work better), but that would be, uh..., "unpredictable"
> if $reply_addr happened to match a reserved word or a subroutine name,
> e.g. "Reply-To: <unlink listname.config>".
>
> The qq~~ is legal, but $reply_addr should have the meta-characters
> escaped before it's eval'ed to keep the '@' from being interpolated by
> Perl 5. The cheap fix is to use non-interpolating inner quotes:
>
> 884 $command = "(q~$reply_addr~ =~ $i)";
> 894 $command = "(q~$reply_addr~ =~ $i)";
> ^
> Note 1 'q' instead of 2. This still counts on '~' not being in
> $reply_addr (probably a safe bet), but really should escape all
> non-alphanumeric characters in a copy of $reply_addr to be robust.
>
> --
> Dave Wolfe *Not a spokesman for Motorola*
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