[FWP] Untainting a string

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

Just wondering what the cleverest/cutest/etc way to untaint a string.  I 
often [almost all of the time actually] verify that a tainted-value is OK 
and can be safely used *WITHOUT* actually doing syntactic matching on the 
string...  and so I also almost all the time just want to say "OK, 
untaint this sucker".  Lately I've been using:

     ($var) = $var =~ /(.*)/ ;

is there some sexier idiom for this kind of thing?

  /Bernie\

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