Re: A long time ago on an OS far away
"Er, no. The moral of this story is that user input should *ALWAYS*, no exceptions, be checked, starting with how long it is."
Wrong, you should start with checking whether it is there at all, length is secondary to that (unless you equate it not being there with a zero length, which I don't, zero length can be acceptable).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
