Don't forget to set the correct ENCTYPE for your form:

<FORM ACTION="/path/somescript.cgi" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="multipart/f
+orm-data">
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Make sure you use strict;, but you may have a problem with Perl claiming your file name is a symbolic reference and refusing to open it. If you need a hard reference, you can do the following:

my $file = $q->param( 'file' ) or someErrorRoutine( $q, "No file recei
+ved" );
my $fh   = $q->upload( $file );
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$fh is now supposed to be the filehandle for your file. This requires CGI.pm version 2.47 or above. However, I have had a lot of difficulty getting that to work.

Cheers,
Ovid

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