What you want to do doesn't require regular expressions at all. You can do it with a transliteration, using the tr operator

  my $path = 'c:\\tmp/sup';
  $path =~ tr{/}{\\};
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Oops. Sorry, misread the question. Which just goes to show that backslashes are truly the work of the devil.

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