Having regexes like s/\/etc\/// is referred to as Leaning Toothpick Syndrome, aka LTS.

You already know you can use your preferred delimiter with qw; same thing with s///. YOu can even use delimiters that come in pairs, to differentiate the search part from the replace part:

s{/etc/}{}

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I generally like to move the search string and the replace components out of the regex operation, so the operation is just operating on predefined variables. 
my $search_for = qr{/etc/};
my replace_with = qr{};
s{$search_for}{$replace_with}

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But in this case, you're dropping a single, identical prefix from all the paths. Perhaps that's simply a contrived example for the post. But in such a situation, I would use substr() to discard the prefix, which I already know the length of. While basename() is a more robust, reliable, portable solution, you could also use rindex to locate the rightmost '/' separator, and use substr to extract what comes after that.

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

In reply to Re: Unexpected behavior with "map" by TomDLux
in thread Unexpected behavior with "map" by Clovis_Sangrail

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