Not quite there. Then you have to join $vol and $path together, and File::Spec doesn't provide the means to do that. You might say "But catpath!", but using catpath without a file name is undocumented, and it leaves an errant trailing slash on my system. Rather than using the fragile 

use File::Spec::Functions qw( splitpath catpath rel2abs canonpath );

my ($v, $p, $file_name) = splitpath(rel2abs($file_path));
my $dir_path = canonpath(catpath($v, $p));

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use the module designed for the task at hand, File::Basename. 

use File::Basename        qw( fileparse );
use File::Spec::Functions qw( rel2abs );

my ($file_name, $dir_path) = fileparse(rel2abs($file_path));

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In reply to Re^2: Dissecting a complete pathname to a file by ikegami
in thread Dissecting a complete pathname to a file by Anonymous Monk

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