If you want to grab each portion of the path, delimited by '/', you can do this (more on '/' later): 

my $dir1 = 'c:/reports/temp1/temp2';
my $dir2 = 'c:/output';
my( @dirs ) = split /\//, $dir1;
$dirs[0] = $dir2;
foreach my $dir ( @dirs ) {
    $dir2 .= '/' . $dir;
    mkdir $dir2 or die $!;
}

[download]

Note: For the sake of portability and simplicity, Perl allows you to separate directories with a '/' character, which is a whole lot easier to deal with than '\' characters. And you can do it that way on both a Windows system and a *nix system, from within a Perl script.


Dave

In reply to Re: Extracting from variables by davido
in thread Extracting from variables by nisha

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.