Like other monks I don't get exactly what you want to do. But if *all* you want to do is dump the data from your form into a file then you could do worse than use Data::Dumper to put the whole CGI object, containing everything you got from the form, into a text file. This would do it:

use Data::Dumper;
my $filename = time;    # i.e. a time-stamped filename
$filename .= '.txt';
open F, ">/your/chose/path/$filename";
print F Dumper($q);
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§ George Sherston