You've been told to use CGI.pm now here's how you might do it - given that you have a form like : 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
   <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/uptest.cgi" enctype="multipart
+/form-data">

   <input type="file" name="uploaded_file"  />
   <input type="text" name="text_field" />
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
   </form>
  </body>
</html>

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Then this code will save the uploaded file and give you the value of the text field - you can have as many text fields or upload fields as you want: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $fh = upload('uploaded_file');

my $filename = param('uploaded_file');

open OUTFILE, "> /tmp/$filename" or die "/tmp/$filename - $!\n";

print header('text/html'),
      start_html(),
      p("filename : $filename (saved in /tmp)"),
      p("text_field : " . param('text_field'));

while (<$fh>)
{
   print OUTFILE $_;
}

print end_html();

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/J\

In reply to Re: File upload from browser + text data by gellyfish
in thread [untitled node, ID 155208] by Samn

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