A quick and dirty solution might be really to use something like my @path = split m:/:, "/home/temp/login"; Disadvantage of such a solution is that your code will break if a dirname contains a slash or you start working on Windows. If you really only want the relative dirnames, the following snippet will print them: 
use File::Basename;

my $d = "/home/temp/login"; 
my @b = (); 
while ($d ne dirname($d)) {    # as long as we can move up directory t
+ree, when we are at root the dirname won't change any more
    push @b, basename($d); 
    $d = dirname($d)
} 
print join "\n", reverse(@b)

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Greetings,
Janek Schleicher

Update: Fixed a typo in script.

In reply to Re: How to split "/" by bigj
in thread How to split "/" by Jaycob777

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