I am busy converting a perl script into a CGI.. this snippet of perl code works fine;

open (FILE, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file $!";

my $data = do {local $/; <FILE>; };

print $data;
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So why doesn't this CGI alternative snippet not work??

$file_contents = $query->param('file');
$file_contents =~ m/^.*(\\|/\)(.*)/;
my $name = $2;

open (FILE, ">$name") or die $!;

my $data =  do {local $/; <FILE>; };

print STDOUT $data;
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thanks monks