Hi, welkome to the world of metacharacters:-)
use this code to debug this problem.

use re debug;
$ScriptPath = "\\\\SERVER\\C\$\\APP\\BIN";
$file = $ScriptPath."\\somefile.txt";
warn $file;
warn $ScriptPath;
$file =~ s|\Q$ScriptPath\E||;
warn $file;
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The re debug is very usefull for these kind of problems.

I hope this helps.

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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium