Can't reproduce the problem under W2k and AS 5.8.8.

perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...
Binary build 819 [267479] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Aug 29 2006 12:42:41

OP's path is only 62 chars, at most, so that's not the issue. So, starting with no directory, "test," extant in C:\

C:\>dir t*
...
 Directory of C:\
09/04/2006  11:26a      <DIR>          TEMP
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               1 Dir(s)  10,945,437,696 bytes free

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Quoting varied from OP's, solely (AFAIK) because the following is run as a one-liner:

C:\>perl -e "if (!-d 'c:/test') {mkdir 'c:/test1';}"

C:\>dir t*
...
 Directory of C:\
09/04/2006  11:26a      <DIR>          TEMP
02/02/2008  10:14p      <DIR>          test1
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  10,945,437,696 bytes free

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...and, further variance this time in both quoting and slash direction:

C:\>perl -e "if (!-d 'c:/test') {mkdir \"c:/test\";}"

C:\>dir t*
...
 Directory of C:\
09/04/2006  11:26a      <DIR>          TEMP
02/02/2008  10:17p      <DIR>          test
02/02/2008  10:14p      <DIR>          test1
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  10,945,404,928 bytes free

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So, are you sure your code is not working? ...sure that E:\ exists and is writable? ... Update - addition ...sure that all the dirs between E:\ and the first you're trying to create actually exist? (See the second bullet in plobsing's reply, above.)

In reply to Re: Creating new folders by ww
in thread Creating new folders by Eagle_f91

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