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confused by use of 'implied' variable

im butchering a public script i found on the internet for purpose of doing a CGI file upload. theres one excerpt from the script that ive never used before. the few lines... while ( $upload_filehandle ) { print UPLOADFILE; } if it were me, i would not write code this way, i write in a way

'moving' an activeperl install to a new machine (xp to windows 7)

hi all, ive got a wonderfully working activeperl 5.8.9 environment that was originall setup on Windows XP. so that i dont need to reinstall the many, many packages that ive ammased throughout the years - i had the thought to simply copy my entire 'perl' folder from the older windows xp pc to my