I had this working perfectly, now all of a sudden, it is not. I have not changed the main code, yet the output variable is always blank now...

can you tell me if this is wrong?

    my $filename = param("incoming");
    my $handle   = upload("incoming");
    $filename =~ s/(?:\\|\/)([^\\\/]+)$/$1/g;
    my $buffer;
    my $_tFileContains = "";
    while (read($handle,$buffer,2048)) {
        $_tFileContains .= $buffer
    }

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That was populating the file contains variable every time. Now, $_tFileContains is blank, always. Yet the filename is there, so I know it is getting the file, I have tried a lot of different files, even ones that worked in the past. Nothing.

any idea why it would not work now?

Is there a better way to do it? I guess I could write it to a temporary file then just read the file to get the data and then parse it, then delete the file when I am done, but there must be a way to get this working.

I am not sure if maybe there was an update to perl that made it happen or what...

I would appreciate any help you can be.

Thanks,
Richard

In reply to File upload quit working by Anonymous Monk

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