[NCLUG] CHAT script and bad password
mike cullerton
michaelc at cullerton.com
Tue Oct 24 19:12:28 MDT 2000
note also that special characters can be escaped, so that
$stuff =~ /\^hello/
would match "^hello" anywhere in string $stuff
on 10/24/00 7:04 PM, Brian Stanback at bhs at stanback.net wrote:
> In Perl the ^ tells a regular expression to match anything at the
> beginning of the string.
>
> So $stuff =~ /^hello/ would match a "hello" at the beginning of
> string $stuff.
> Also, the $ sign in a regular expression matches anything at the end of a
> string.
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Stephen G. Smith wrote:
>
>> I have a chat script that has a problem
>> with using the ^ symbol in a password.
>> I know the dialup works due to changing
>> the password to something else and having
>> success. I can recreate the problem by inserting
>> an account with a password that includes a ^ .
>>
>> I am not a programmer but I am guessing
>> that the ^ is a reserved character.
>>
>> Any hints on
>>
>> A. Why does this happen?
>> B. Can I make the script pass the ^ as a legal
>> character?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> SGS
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