I have a list of paths in a file => small.txt i wish to open that file, copy the path and change my directory to the path collected from small.txt. 

use Cwd;
$BACK= getcwd();
open(LIST,"small.txt") or die "Cant open small.txt";
@arr= <LIST>;
for($i = 0; $i < @arr; $i++)
{
chomp($arr[$i]);
print "path read from file = $arr[$i]\n";
#it displays => ms_qu/the/path/written/in/file    (fine till here but 
+it shud go to this place when i use chdir)
chdir $arr[$i] or die "$1";
print "After chdir, cwd is = ";
system("pwd");
chdir($BACK);
print "Now im back to where i started";
system("pwd");
}

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Now im not able to change my directory to the path in $arr$i. it shows me the die msg and doesnt change pwd. format of path in small.txt: xyx/abs/def/ijk Although if i write chdir(/abc/def/ijk), it works fine but i want chdir($variable) where value of variable is collected from small.txt PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!

In reply to using chdir($variable_name) to change directory by shridhar22

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