This is in regards to literally saving a file inside a database

A user there shows you can use a  my $file = <FH> to get the contents of a file to transport into the database.

How would you do this from an upload form without first shoving the file onto your web server, reading the contents, pushing it into the database and finally deleted the uploaded file from the server?

   my $uploadfile = param('upload');
   open(FILE, "$uploadfile") or die "error: $!";
   my $source = <FILE>;
   close (FILE);

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The above fails and I'm not sure why. When you print $uploadfile originally you get the entire C:\\path\to\file\name.file . That goes without saying but when you open it, is it really trying to open from this location? I expected it to be in memory already but something somewhere isn't right.

Is there a way to do this without first saving the file to the disk?

In reply to File source from memory by Anonymous Monk

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