I am wondering why I cannot get $IN->param to return the full path.

<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" blah blah
blah
<input type="file" name="file">
submit blah
</form>

and in the cgi which the form calls:

my $thefile = $IN->param('file');
print "File: $thefile<br>";

This prints the name of the file, but not the full path to the file.

Any ideas?

Strange, that should be doing what you expected.

Can you show the exact html you are using?

Hey Paul,

I think it may be because the form input field is passing the whole file and not the path to the file.

How would I get it to pass the path and not the contents???

Actually, I'll just pass the whole file and read its contents, it will be simpler.


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It should pass the path by default then in your script you read the file contents with:

That works! Merci!

If you want the file name you can probably do something like: