in reply to Re: Re: {3} Using Variables in Path Names
in thread Using Variables in Path Names

My 0.02.

I don't like both variants. They are not portable. It is better to use File::Spec for operations on filenames: 

use File::Spec;
my $dir = File::Spec->catdir($HOME, $first, $second);

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