Sorry, meant to post this in the rails forum. Anyways, how would I write
a rescue method to recover from a failed regexp parsing with error
"regexp not matched"
Could you post some code? If your user puts a regexp into a string r (and if you trust that user not to taint your program's interior), you just need this:
if /#{ r }/ =~ sample rescue advise_user(r) && false
Sorry, meant to post this in the rails forum. Anyways, how would I write
a rescue method to recover from a failed regexp parsing with error
"regexp not matched"
Could you post some code? If your user puts a regexp into a string r (and if
you trust that user not to taint your program's interior), you just need
this:
if /#{ r }/ =~ sample rescue advise_user(r) && false
I don't think (though if I'm wrong of course I'd like to find out)
that r can do any damage there. The evaluation of r is itself already
a string, so this:
r = "gets"
/#{r}/
does not do the same as:
/#{gets}/
The bigger issue here, though, is specifically rescuing from a regex
parsing error, which doesn't seem to fall under the jurisdiction of
the usual runtime rescuing mechanism:
irb(main):029:0> if /[/; end rescue "Bad regex"
(irb):29: warning: regex literal in condition
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):29: invalid regular expression; '[' can't be the last character
ie. can't start range at the end of pattern: /[/
The bigger issue here, though, is specifically rescuing from a regex
parsing error, which doesn't seem to fall under the jurisdiction of
the usual runtime rescuing mechanism: