Thanks for your answers.
Well, I'm a very unskilled Perl-er, and my problem is not how can I run my programm, but how can I upload the input file in a temp file.

As for the CGI.pm, there are hints into it on how to create an HTML form to upload a file, but what about how to update this very file?

Here is how my starting page looks like: 
<p><b><i>Step 1 of 3: Select input file</i></b></p>
<form action="http://path/to/my/script/step1.pl" method="POST" enctype
+='multipart/form-data'>
      <table>
<tr>
       <td><font face="Arial" size="2">Select input file:</td>
       <td><input type="file" name="inputfile" size='30'></td>
(...)

      <div align="right"><input type="submit" value="Next >"></div>
      </form></font>

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My script step1.pl looks like this: 
#! perl.exe

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;

my $file = $q->param('inputfile'));

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and so on. What should I do now with $file?

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Uploading files (total newbie needs help...) by guth
in thread Uploading files (total newbie needs help...) by guth

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