You can use a / as the path separator on both UNIX and WIN32, give it a try. A useful data structure might be a hash like this: 

# set up a hash that indexes each target dir to an array that
# contains references to the actions we want to do on that dir
my %dirs = ( dir1 => [ \&log, \&foo ],
             dir2 => [ \&log, \&bar ],
             dir3 => [ \&log, \&foo, \&bar ]
           );

for my $dir ( keys %dirs ) {
    do{ print "Skipping $dir\n"; next } unless check($dir);
    for my $action_sub ( @{$dirs{$dir}} ) {
        &$action_sub($dir);
    }
}

sub check {
   # perform a check that we are ok to go, return true if so
   return 0 if $_[0] eq 'dir2'; # fake it to skip dir 2
   return 1;
}

sub log {
   print "Doing log to $_[0]\n";
}

sub foo {
   print "Doing foo to $_[0]\n";
}

sub bar {
   print "Doing bar to $_[0]\n";
}

__END__
Doing log to dir1
Doing foo to dir1
Skipping dir2
Doing log to dir3
Doing foo to dir3
Doing bar to dir3

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: General Question: File triggered job launcher by tachyon
in thread General Question: File triggered job launcher by Bjoern

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