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Use "\z" instead of "$" to anchor validating regular expressions
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Authored by epriestley on Mar 13 2014, 2:18 PM.
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Via HackerOne. In regular expressions, "$" matches "end of input, or before terminating newline". This means that the expression /^A$/ matches two strings: "A", and "A\n".

When we care about this, use \z instead, which matches "end of input" only.

This allowed registration of "username\n" and similar.

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  • Grepped codebase for all calls to preg_match() / preg_match_all().
  • Fixed the ones where this seemed like it could have an impact.
  • Added and executed unit tests.

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epriestley retitled this revision from to Use "\z" instead of "$" to anchor validating regular expressions.
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 13 2014, 5:38 PM
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Closed by commit rP969d0c3e8de2 (authored by @epriestley).