in reply to saving the file uploaded...

my guess is that since you're initializing the filestream variables as scalars, this might be preventing it from acting as a filehandle...try removing the initializing lines...

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Re: Re: saving the file uploaded...
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 28, 2002 at 19:29 UTC 
    my $scalar = '';
$scalar = {};
print ref $scalar, "\n";
$scalar = [];
print ref $scalar, "\n";

use IO::File;
$scalar = IO::File->new();
print ref $scalar, "\n";

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    Update: Perl is loosely typed. Assignments tend not to care about the previous contents of the variable. That's all.
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      That may be true, however, i had a very similar problem a few months ago, which i fixed by removing the initialization line... hence my post :-)
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