Since you used [.\w]+ to try to match the last file name component, the match will fail if the user supplied a string ending with the directory delimiter (\home\me\foo\bar\).

This takes you beyond just fixing your regex, but if you use the File::Spec module, you can accomodate end-cases like this and get portability to boot. For your example, this might look like: 
  $pat = File::Spec->catfile($HomePath, '');
  if ($Model =~ m/^\Q$pat\E/i) {
      (undef,$WorkingDirectory,undef) = File::Spec->splitpath($');
  } else {
      # whatever to do if the supplied variable isn't under $HomePath
  }

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The initial File::Spec->catfile call appends a trailing '\' so that it doesn't show up as an initial '\' in the resulting $' that you pass to File::Spec->splitpath.

In reply to Re: Regex Improvement by knight
in thread Regex Improvement by Lexicon

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