From: ts Date: 2002-04-23T00:16:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Taintedness inheritance >>>>> "S" == Sean Russell writes: S> Which means: S> b = a.unpack("C*").pack("C*") S> is an efficient way of untainting a string. There is faster and more efficient way to do it b = a.untaint; # :-) You work at safe level 1, try it with safe level 3 Guy Decoux