sub extractTarFile{

    print $cgi->header();
    ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);

    $year = $year + 1900;
    $mon = &formatDigit($mon ++);
    $mday = &formatDigit($mday);
    $hour = &formatDigit($hour);
    $min = &formatDigit($min);
    $sec = &formatDigit($sec);

    $submissionID = "$year-$mon-$mday-$hour-$min-$sec-$user_Name";   #yyyy-mm-dd-hhmmss

    mkdir "$submittedFiles/$submissionID", 0777 or warn "Cannot make directory: $!";
    copy ("$tmpFilePosition", "$submittedFiles/$submissionID/$user_File_Filename");

    $tarLocation = "$submittedFiles/$submissionID/$user_File_Filename";

    $RC_open = open TARFILE, $tarLocation;

    if (-e TARFILE){
        print $cgi->p("File exsists");
    }

    $RC_new = $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
    $RC_extract = $tar->extract_archive("TARFILE");

    $tar_errors = $tar->error();

    print $cgi->p("Return Val open ($RC_open)");
    print $cgi->p("Return Val New tar ($RC_new)");
    print $cgi->p("Return Val Extract ($RC_extract)");
    print $cgi->p("Tar Location is ($tarLocation)");
    print $cgi->p("Tar errors ($tar_errors)");
    print $cgi->p("submittedFiles ($submittedFiles)");
    print $cgi->p("submissionID ($submissionID)");
    print $cgi->p("userFileFilename ($user_File_Filename)");

    close TARFILE;
}