Your backslashes in double quotes represents an escaped character. You could use single quotes: 

'\\pcname-vm\c$\program files\adobe'

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Or you could use double quotes with multiple escaping to compensate for the escaping: 

"\\\\pcname-vm\\c$\\program files\\adobe"

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Or, finally, you could use forward slashes: 
"//pcname-vm/c$/program files/adobe"

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Also, you should remove any non-directories from your list. 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $directory = "//pcname-vm/c$/program files/adobe";

open(NDIR, $directory) or die "Error: $!";

my @folders;

while (my $filename = readdir(NDIR)) {

   # skip the . and .. directories
   next         if ($filename =~ /^.+$/); 

   my $folder   = "$directory/$filename";

   # skip if not a directory
   next         if (! -d $folder); 

   push(@folders, $filename);

}

close(NDIR);

foreach (@folders) {
  
   print "$_\n";

}

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In reply to Re: Quickest way to get a list of all folders in a directory by tokpela
in thread Quickest way to get a list of all folders in a directory by Anonymous Monk

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