Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
> Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is
> submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file is
> tab delimited.
> Now picture the first person going to the form and filling everything out,
> including all checkboxes and radio buttons.
> Now the second person comes along and chooses not to fill in a radio
> button. When that form's information is sent to the script it is missing
> that radio buttons field name and therefore misses that tab, and all the
> results get skewed. Information becomes invalid, people get unhappy,
> heads are lost, cats and dogs start getting married, and all the worlds
> wine turns into bags of turnips.
> In other words, not terribly fun.
Sounds hilarious to me. And it sounds like just the sort of pain that
you would deserve if you didn't sanity-check your input.
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