Now that you have an answer to the spaces-in-filenames question, why not make things easier in terms of quoting? You have:

my $quotedfullelementpath = "\"" . $folderfullpath . "/" . $element . 
+"\"";

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Of all the options available to you, you've settled for the most difficult and least attractive. You could use single quotes around the double quote characters, or the alternate single quote q. You could use a symbol constant to represent the quote and slash. Best of all, you could mash it all into a single string using qq! Assuming there was a real reason to put the double quotes in the string.

my $quotedfullelementpath = '"' . $folderfullpath . '/' . $element . '
+"';
my $quotedfullelementpath = q{"} . $folderfullpath . q{/} . $element .
+ q{"};

use Readonly;
Readonly my $DQUOTE => q{"};
Readonly my $SLASH  => q{/};

my $quotedfullelementpath 
    = $DQUOTE . $folderfullpath . $SLASH . $element . $DQUOTE;
my $quotedfullelementpath = qq{"$folderfullpath/$element "};

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Why suffer when there are alternatives?

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

In reply to Re: File test -T (text) and quoted filenames by TomDLux
in thread File test -T (text) and quoted filenames by AdamtheKiwi

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