When the form is processed, you can retrieve the entered filename by
       calling param():

              $filename = $query->param('uploaded_file');

       Different browsers will return slightly different things for th
+e name.
       Some browsers return the filename only.  Others return the full
+ path to
       the file, using the path conventions of the user's machine.  Re
+gard-
       less, the name returned is always the name of the file on the u
+ser's
       machine, and is unrelated to the name of the temporary file tha
+t CGI.pm
       creates during upload spooling (see below).

       The filename returned is also a file handle.  You can read the 
+contents
       of the file using standard Perl file reading calls:

               # Read a text file and print it out
               while (<$filename>) {
                  print;
               }

               # Copy a binary file to somewhere safe
               open (OUTFILE,">>/usr/local/web/users/feedback");
               while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
                  print OUTFILE $buffer;
               }
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