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use CGI; use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser ); use File::Basename; my $upload_dir = "upload/"; my $query = new CGI; my $filename = $query->param("file"); my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("file"); $newname = "edddd"; my ($ext) = $filename =~ /([^.]+)$/; my $newfile = "$newname.$ext"; open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$newfile" ) or die "$!"; binmode UPLOADFILE; while ( <$upload_filehandle> ) { print UPLOADFILE; } close UPLOADFILE;

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Re^2: rename file
by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 24, 2020 at 22:28 UTC

    You pull in File::Basename, but then manually extract the extension with a regular expression. And probably doesn't do what you mean if $filename doesn't have an extension in it (in which case $newfile will be (effectively) "$newname.$filename" instead).

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Re^2: rename file
by frank1 (Monk) on Aug 24, 2020 at 18:13 UTC

    wow this is awesome, this is what i have been looking for, much thanks