Hi monks, Please can someone shed some light. A simple CGI script to read in a submitted file and print its contents to the screen. 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;

print STDOUT $query->header();
print STDOUT $query->start_html( -title=> "CGI");


my $file = $query->upload('file');


$file =~ m/^.*(\\|\/)(.*)/;
my $file_name = $2;

open (FILE, "$name") or die "unable to open file";

$info = do { local $/; <FILE>  };
close (FILE);

print STDOUT "$info";


print STDOUT $query->end_html;

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This script will only print the contents of one file that I submit (I have submitted lots to test). Even if you re-name this one file and submit it, the contents won't print. Does anyone have any idea whats going on?? thanks, much appreciated.

In reply to CGI file very odd by Anonymous Monk

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