There are many ways to do this sort of thing. If your path is always known in a string then one simple approach is this
my $path = "/dir1/dir2/dir3/ .. /dirn-1/dirLast//";
my @pathary = split(/\//,$path);
my $parentpath = join('/',@pathary[0..$#pathary-1]);
# pop @path; # also
# my $parentpath = join('/',@pathary); # works
print "$path\n$parentpath\n";
An alternative, if the directory your are in is unknown or changes in an unpredictible manner, might be something like this. Note: This is rather inefficient but works.
use Cwd;
my $oldpath = getcwd();
print "$oldpath\n";
$path = '/var/tmpdir';
chdir $path;
$path = getcwd(); # for info only
print "$path\n"; # for info only
chdir "../";
$path = getcwd();
print "$path\n";
PJ
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