Re: need a little string hint...

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net> writes:

> Andre wrote:
> > Trim (String, Both)
> > mferracini wrote:
> >
> >> mhh and how i can trim away the ' '?
> >>
> 
> and what if the hostname contains a voluntary space at the end or at
> the beginning ?
> 
> this may happen because the configuration file writer wanted spaces
> converted to "%20", or it may just happen because somebody mistyped
> the hostname in the configuration file.
> 
> in any case, your solution prevent from taking the appropriate
> action since it removes the spaces... with all the security risks
> implied.

Of course you may not be talking about DNS -- but I'm pretty sure that
under DNS legal hostname characters are [a-z0-9.-] (case insensitive)
which doesn't include space.

A text-based config file format that includes significant whitespace
as you suggest and doesn't delimit it (eg, with quotes) is asking to
be derided. Just look at make(1).

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