Re: checking to see if a file include scheme

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Graham Percival escreveu:
> As a security measure, I'd like to have a script that checks if a
> lilypond file contains any scheme.  Is there any better way than
> searchign for "#(define" ?
> 
> I'm not worried about a few false positives (if any non-scheme .ly file
> just happened to have "#(define" in the text somewhere), but could a
> malicious person add whitespace and have "#( define" ?  If so, is there
> a way to search for such a whitespace-including string in python?

I'd search for the regex "#[ \t\n]*(" 

(define )

is not what you should worry about, but rather the other calls, such as

#(system  "rm -rf /")


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