My fellow monks, I found a quick upload script and it's working fine. It's uploading the files to the wwwroot dir on my system. I even changed it so that it's doing it to the correct file name/type instead of just a txt file as it was when I found it. My question is how can I have it upload to a different directory? Right now, it does it thusly (where $base = filename.type):
    open FILE, ">$base";
    binmode FILE;

    while (<$file>) {
        print FILE $_;
    $length += length($_);
    }

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I tried this:
    $upload_path = "\uploaded_files\";
    $uploaded_file .= $upload_path + $base;

    open FILE, ">$uploaded_file";
    binmode FILE;

    while (<$file>) {
        print FILE $_;
    $length += length($_);
    }

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but it didn't work. I'm not sure how to go about acomplishing this. Do I need to escape the "\" in $uploaded_path? Can you lend a hand?
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