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Isn't the problem with eval that you are running whatever is in the var? Probably variable expansion but maybe not and that could be not ideal



Programmers do that without realizing it all the time. There's like five classes of exploits that are just programmers assuming whatever variable they are interpolating is safe because they assume their language handles all security problems for them.




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