The Perl Short Questions Megathread: executable line noise

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Midelne: Jun 19, 2002; I shouldn't trust the phones. They're full of gas.

tef posted:

A developer.

You are handling credit card details, so if you don't know about CGI, form escaping or the difference between "$Amount" and "Amount" it is time to give up and find someone who can.

(Sorry for the turn about, I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt in missing something obvious - but your later posts expose your inexperience fully)

Aye. When in doubt, look up "due diligence" and the legal ramifications of the lack thereof as it concerns credit card information. You don't want to be holding this bag.

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Midelne: Jun 19, 2002; I shouldn't trust the phones. They're full of gas.

MrHyde posted:

So are you saying instead of the open(...) or do { die; } (it's what I use in PHP so I just intuitively used it here) I should just put the open statement inside an if? Would I just put the {die;} portion of the code inside an else then?

I believe he's referring to open(CONFIG, $_[0]), suggesting that you instead explicitly open the file only for input using open(CONFIG, '<', $_[0].

The difference is that the first one, as he pointed out, does bad things to what it opens if there was preexisting data.

edit: My first post in the Perl thread! Now I am a man.

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