Your "code snippet" begins with: 
The array contents are
...

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But there is no array in the code snippet, and this makes your post incoherent. (That means we can't understand what you are trying to ask us about.)

I think one or more monks, in replying to one or more of your earlier posts, has mentioned modules like File::Spec and File::Basename. Have you looked into those? Have you tried them? Is there some problem that you have with trying them?

Others have also told you about using split -- e.g. like this: 

my @a = qw/C:\abc\dfg\axy C:\abc\dfg\#@$#@$@\hwllo/;
for ( @a ) {
    my @p = split /\\/;
    print "last-component= ", $p[-1], " and next-to-last= ", $p[-2], "
+\n";
}

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Have you tried anything like that yet? Is there some problem with trying that?

In reply to Re: unable to fomulate right regular expression to fetch the intermediate and last word from a line (windows path) using delimiter "\" by graff
in thread unable to fomulate right regular expression to fetch the intermediate and last word from a line (windows path) using delimiter "\" by suniln

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