I am having trouble resolving links. When I hardcode the filename and path in the code, any symlinks get resolved. But when I read them from a file, the links are ignored. I have tried various functions to resolve the links. I show two here. Both succeed with the hardcoded path and fail with the path read from the file. My code: 
use strict;
use Cwd 'abs_path';
use File::Spec::Link;

use vars qw ($LIST_SEPARATOR);

    my $path = "/home/czechar/foo/bar/myfile.xml";
    print STDOUT "Original path: $path\n";
    my $new_path = File::Spec::Link->resolve_all($path);
    print STDOUT "Resolved path(1): $new_path\n";
    my $abs_path = abs_path($path);
    print STDOUT "Resolved path(2): $abs_path\n";

    #
    # now try to read from a file...
    #
    open (FILE_LIST, "< ./filenames");

    my $path = <FILE_LIST>;
    chomp $path;
    print STDOUT "path from file: $path\n";
    $abs_path = abs_path($path);
    print STDOUT "abs path: $abs_path\n";
    $new_path = File::Spec::Link->resolve_all($path);
    print STDOUT "new path: $new_path\n";
    close (FILE_LIST);

    exit;

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Thanks in advance for your help. Corwin

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