Hi t-rex,

Item 4 from the Basic debugging checklist: Use Data::Dumper.

use Data::Dumper;
my $run_cmd = "a b c >logfile.txt ";
my ($logfile) = (split />/,$run_cmd)[-1];
chomp($logfile);
my $pagal = "foo/$logfile";
my $pagal2 = "foo/logfile.txt";
print Dumper($logfile, $pagal, $pagal2);

__END__

$VAR1 = 'logfile.txt ';
$VAR2 = 'foo/logfile.txt ';
$VAR3 = 'foo/logfile.txt';
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See How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D