I am not seeing that on my machine 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while(<DATA>){
    @array = split '/';
    print $array[0],$/;
}

__DATA__
C:\Documents and Settings\Claire\Desktop\ /LOG:fgf /L /XF doc /W:3 /R:
+10 /COPY:dtao /FP

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Output

C:\Documents and Settings\Claire\Desktop\

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I modified your IN to DATA but it should not cause any issues. Actually i tested this code using the contents inside command.txt and i got the same output

Can you print out the entire line from the file before you split it? like  print;

Also just so that you know split's first arg is a regular exp

I would have written  split /\//

-SK

In reply to Re: "/" with directory in an array by sk
in thread "/" with directory in an array by Real Perl

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