I want to use an HTML form to process all files in a user defined directory. I don't want the users to have to enter the path in a textbox. Browsing to the directory seems to be the ideal method - and I can accomplish this using something similar to a file upload form: 
$query = new CGI;
if ($file = $query->param('filename')) {&parsefile}
print $query->start_multipart_form;
print $query->filefield('filename','',25), "  ";
print $query->reset('Clear','reset'),$query->submit('submit','OK');
print $query->endform;

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I haven't tried it, but since the variable $file contains the full path to the file, I imagine I could upload and process more than just the file selected by the user. This is not pretty, however. Is there a better way to do this?

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