This may help you understand what the code trying to do. 

# Set the path variable.

 $path = "\\default\\main\\Anand\\toipcs\\Tutorials\\internet";
 
 # Make a copy of it
 
 $curPath = $path;
 
 # Extract (what I assume to be) your user/home directory ("Anand").  
 # However this line won't work because the substitution operator is m
+issing the 's'
 
 $curPath =~ !\default\main\(.*)\Tutorials\internet!$1!;
 #          ^ There should be an 's' here
 
 # Make a copy of the extracted directory name ("Anand") and print it 
+out
 
 $parentdir = $curPath;
  print "parent Directory : $curPath\n";
  
  # This line doesn't doesn't make any sense at all??.
  # It's obviously trying to extract 2 different parts of the path fro
+om something
  # But 
  # a) The is no variable to operate on! It would need to look somethi
+ng like:
  #       ($Pdir, $Sdir) = $path =~ m!(.*)\\(.*)!; !!!NOTE  the double
+d backslash (\\)!
  # b) Quite what the intent of the '$1,$2' at the  end was meant to d
+o.
  
 ($Pdir,$Sdir) =~ m!(.*)\(.*)$!$1,$2;
 
 # Nothing will be printed as the line above did nothing!

 print "parent branch : $Pdir \t sub branch $Sdir";

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However, I think you need to try and explain what it is that you want the code to do, then it may be possible to help you further.

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In reply to Re: Get Parent Directory by BrowserUk
in thread Get Parent Directory by Ananda

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