These are called UNC paths, not absolute paths.

As shown above, 

print '\\\\netbiosname\\sharename', $/;

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results in 
\\netbiosname\sharename

[download]
I would not recommend the suggestion to emply the "net use" command to temporarily connect such a UNC path to a drive letter. It may simplify path handling but it's just as easy to accidentally run into conflicts with which drive letter to assign, whether you can disconnect the drive letter when done, or which drive letter was assigned when you save these strings.

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In reply to Re: Does Perl Support Absolute paths by halley
in thread Does Perl Support Absolute paths by Ashes.cfg

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