welcome Rapazzini.. but ???

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After this, your code does not make much sense to me. what org::item::essential is? a subroutine of the org::item class? what that (unknown to me) sub does? Normally a file path form depend on the underlaying operating system: 
     my $linux_path = '/usr/bin/perl';

     my $win_path   = 'c:\scripts\my.log';

     my $old_macos  = 'Hard Drive:My Folder:My Document';  #dunno

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You have to pay attention when you pass file names to subs to the current directory where the program works. if you run your program in the /some/path and you do not change current directory while running, then a bare_filename.ext will be relative to /some/path ending to be /some/path/bare_filename.ext

To deal with file path in a OS portable manner you can use the core module File::Spec as simply as: 
$path = File::Spec->catfile( @directories, $filename );

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In reply to Re: Passing file location in a subroutine by Discipulus
in thread Passing file location in a subroutine by Rapazzini

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