Hello,
Since there is no way to hardcode a file path as a "value" in the FILE UPLOAD form as stated in RFC1867. I would like to find an alternative to allow multiple uploads. The files always have the same names and paths. Because I am still new to perl my scripting creativity is very limited.

I had an idea that I want to see if it is possible.

Since the name of the FILE fields are named FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 FILE4 FILE5 etc. I thought of having a hash that would contain the file paths of the files I wanted to upload(shown below).Then if the passed value of param("FILE$a")was empty it could look up the stored file path in the hash.

After looking at this it may be I don't require a FILE FIELD INPUT at all and may be just need to hard code all of the file paths anyway.
Any ideas
Thanks
Cal 
#########################################
for(my $a = 1; $a <= 5; $a++) {
            my $req = new CGI;
if($req->param("FILE$a")) {
            my $file = $req->param("FILE$a");
            my $filename = $file;
            }
          }
##########################################
my %path_hash = (
FILE1 => C:\My Documents\Online_Bulletin\pg2.html,
FILE2 => C:\My Documents\Online_Bulletin\pg3.html,
FILE3 => C:\My Documents\Online_Bulletin\_bk.gif,
FILE4 => C:\My Documents\Online_Bulletin\img0.gif,
FILE5 => C:\My Documents\Online_Bulletin\img1.gif,
);

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