Sorry, but your example is not clear. If you substitute all the "\" with "/" and then you print $ans, why I can't see any "/" in your output?

Update: hilitai is right: that can't be the output of the script you posted, for it doesn't compile. I tried it adding "my" before @lines and it works AFAICT.

sini@ordinalfabetix:~$ ./x.pl
enter the path
\home\sini\x.pl
/home/sini/x.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
 #
  use strict;
 use File::Path;
 use File::Basename;
 print"enter the path\n";
 my $ans=<STDIN>;
 #$ans=C:\Users\rak\Desktop\tax.txt chomp($ans);
 my $path= dirname($ans);#I dont have to use this I know.I am just che
+cking here.
 my $file= basename($ans);#I dont have to use this I know.
 $ans=~ s/\\/\//gi;#All my file open statements worked well #with c:/b
+la/bla instead of c:\bla\bla;
 print $ans; #to make sure that I am replacing all "\" with "/";
 open(FH,"<$ans") or die $!;
 my @lines=<FH>;
 print "\n@lines-bla\n";#bla is to check the print statement:Just prin
+ts bla there,not printing file contents;
-bla
sini@ordinalfabetix:~$

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