From 299bbec5a5628c3333cdf4ed45fed3e0c21ca753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: minima <minima>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:53:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] made the regexes slightly less aggressive

---
 Changes          | 3 +++
 perl/BadWords.pm | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 8ff3b6ae..e7df720f 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ registration you will also issue passwords to those registered users.
 change them.   
 4. A non-registered user will get the /spider/data/motd_nor file instead of
 the motd on login.
+5. made the BadWord regexes slightly less aggressive WARNING this may let
+some constructions thru, but hopefully will also allow more legitimate 
+foreign (mainly) things thru as well. 
 19Oct01=======================================================================
 1. Allow DELETE (0x7f) for backspace in console.pl
 2. redo prefix table using latest cty.dat
diff --git a/perl/BadWords.pm b/perl/BadWords.pm
index 7ae0373f..d0572cc2 100644
--- a/perl/BadWords.pm
+++ b/perl/BadWords.pm
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ sub create_regex
 				my $w = uc $_;
 				my @l = split //, $w;
 				my $e = join '+[\s\W]*', @l;
-				$s .= "push \@out, \$1 if \$str =~ /($e)/;\n";
+				$s .= "push \@out, \$1 if \$str =~ /\\b($e)/;\n";
 			}
 		}
 		$s .= "return \@out;\n}";
-- 
2.34.1