[ic] s/Reg Exps on file paths/headaches/g ;

[cfm@maine.com]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:50:25AM -0500, Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:44:41AM -0500, office.standardprinting.net wrote:
> > I'm working on an upload page, and found the docs on using [value-extended],
> > etc.  So far, so good.
> > 
> > But the <input type="file" . . . > tag returns a full path from Win clients,
> > e.g.: F:\folder\file.jpg (Macs dutifully return only the filename, not the
> > whole path :)
> > 
> > $filename =~ s|.*[\\]{1}|| ;
> > 
> All you really need here is:
> 
> $filename =~ s|.*\\||;
> 
> to get rid of everything up to and including the last backslash.  You might
> want to include forward slashes as well, as most unix browsers also return
> the full path.  This should do the trick:
> 
> $filename =~ s|.*[\\/]||;


We rename anything uploaded and provide the pathname as supplied as
an informational field.  In that case we want the full local pathname.
With the new character sets and all the various ways path delimiters 
can be represented that seemed safest to us.  That regexp won't 
get .2fetc.2fpasswd or (more likely) anything in .2fsession.2f....


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