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authorChristian Burger <burger@terra.mpikg-teltow.mpg.de>1998-11-01 23:28:41 +0100
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1998-12-12 12:31:21 +0000
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Document that qw() taints.
To: perlbug@perl.com Subject: taint problems Message-Id: <199811012128.WAA23381@terra.mpikg-teltow.mpg.de> p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2465
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@@ -1057,6 +1057,10 @@ comments into a multi-line C<qw>-string. For this reason the C<-w>
switch produce warnings if the STRING contains the "," or the "#"
character.
+Note that under use L<locale> qw() taints because the definition of
+whitespace is tainted. See L<perlsec> for more information about
+tainting and L<perllocale> for more information about locales.
+
=item s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx
Searches a string for a pattern, and if found, replaces that pattern