I have an issue trying to use the upload method from CGI.pm from a package other than main.

From the CGI docs:
If you create the CGI object in one package e.g. "main") and then obtain the filehandle in a different package (e.g. "foo"), the filehandle will be accessible through "main" but not "foo".

An outline of what I am currently doing:
in Foo.cgi: 

use Bar;
use CGI;
our $q = CGI->new();

Bar::do_stuff(\$q);

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and then in Bar.pm: 
    
sub do_stuff {
    
    # the issue is here
    my $uf = $main::q->upload($fh);

    open (FH, "> $uld/$name")
    while (<$uf>) {print FH};
    close(FH);
    return;
}

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This works, however since I would like 'Bar.pm' to be a general-purpose module, I would prefer not to have to refer to 'main::q' being that the CGI object may not always be named '$q'. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Yet Another CGI File Upload Question by Anonymous Monk

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