Hello,
The recommended idiom for initiating a strict-safe upload using CGI.pm is:

$fh = $query->upload('uploaded_file');
while (<$fh>) {
  print;
}

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In this code the filehandle is never closed. In my specific case I have code to upload many files at once, where all the filename fields are the same in the html form:

my @filehandles = $query->upload('filename');
foreach my $fh (@filehandles) {
   if (defined($fh)) {
      while (<$fh>) {
         print;
         # or write it out locally
      }
   }
}

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Does this leave me with a whole slew of open filehandles sitting around, or is there some magic happening that closes these filehandles that I'm not seeing?

Thanks,
Alex

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