Change the line to read: 

foreach my $pwd (split(/\\/,'\foo\foo1\foo2')) { ...

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and it should work correctly.

Update: The following code (as per above, but with an output): 

foreach my $pwd (split(/\\/,'\foo\foo1\foo2')) {
    print $pwd, "\n";
}

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produces the following output. 
__OUTPUT__

foo
foo1
foo2

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Notice the extra blank line at the beginning? This occurs because of the initial leading slash in the string to split. You'll likely want to take that into concideration.

In reply to Re: A problem with using the split command by Belgarion
in thread A problem with using the split command by TASdvlper

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