note roboticus madtoperl:<p> A couple of things: First, in the code you've shown, you've forgotten to set <code>$upload_dir</code>, so your open may be failing because of that. Secondly, your regular expression is missing a character. I think you meant this:<p> <code> s/([^\/\\]+)$//; </code> But after seeing what you're doing, I'd simplify and rearrange the filename parsing bit to look like this:<p> <code> my ($drive, $path, $file); die "Invalid file name!" unless $file_query1 =~ /(\w:)?(.+)[\\\/](.*)/; print "Drive=", $1, ", Path=", $2, ", File=", $3, "\n"; </code> In any case, I'd second [id://483556]'s suggestion. I've used Net::FTP and it works nicely for jobs like this.<p> --roboticus 551303 551303