And I tried this on a system with Perl 5.8.0 with similar success: 
SEA32895-N2 c:\HELP\PerlScripts>perl pathq.pl
Found C:\HELP\Docs\R2009\sp01\

SEA32895-N2 c:\HELP\PerlScripts>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

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Is it possible that you do not have permission to read one of the directories in the path \HELP\Docs\R2009\sp01 and so are failing on permission rather than not seeing the directory?

In reply to Re: Trouble using a Win32 file path in an array by ramlight
in thread Trouble using a Win32 file path in an array by geo

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