Hello, I have a question concerning a simple, but effective, file uploading script. I wish to incorporate the ability to enter a specific "sub directory" of the $basedir to upload files to. I am very new to programming in perl and am trying to learn. Any help would be greatly appreiated. Here is the html and .pl script that I am working with: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#$basedir = "/home/sites/web/directory/";
$allowall = "yes";
$theext = ".gif";
$donepage = "up2.html";
## DO NOT EDIT OR COPY BELOW THIS LINE        ##
use CGI; 
$onnum = 1;

while ($onnum != 11) {
my $req = new CGI; 
my $file = $req->param("FILE$onnum"); 
if ($file ne "") {
my $fileName = $file; 
$fileName =~ s!^.*(\\|\/)!!; 
$newmain = $fileName;
if ($allowall ne "yes") {
if (lc(substr($newmain,length($newmain) - 4,4)) ne $theext){
$filenotgood = "yes";
}
}
if ($filenotgood ne "yes") { 
open (OUTFILE, ">$basedir/$fileName"); 
print "$basedir/$fileName<br>";
while (my $bytesread = read($file, my $buffer, 1024)) { 
print OUTFILE $buffer; 
} 
close (OUTFILE); 
}
}
$onnum++;
}

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Location:$donepage\n\n";

################end pl############

<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="upload.cgi" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
File 1: 
<input type="file" name="FILE1">
<br>
File 2: 
<input type="file" name="FILE2">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Upload!">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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