I would have expected something in the direction of extracting text in an MSWord doc on CPAN but several searches revealed nothing except a PDF2text type module. perhaps you can ask your uploading public to upload text files or some other format. (You'll have a hard time uploading and extracting info from an MSWord doc since MS keeps this probably secret and copyrighted in some manner.) Of course, if you're storing this file just for a later download, then you should be all set. But you should still set a $CGI::POST_MAX and scan the file appropriate to your file type to ensure its integrity.

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