Dear Monks,

I wish to perform regex substitutions in a string containing Windows paths. More precisely, eliminate some paths from the string. Could someone help me out with the regex substitution, which does not seem work in the following code ?

I would appreciate if somebody explained what exactly the problem is. I fear it's something very basic that I am missing here..

Thank you in advance ! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;


my $path = join ';', (
    'D:\aa\bb\cc',
    'D:\dd\ee\ff',
    'D:\gg\hh\ii',
);

my $path_component = 'D:\aa\bb\cc';

print $path, "\n\n";

$path =~ s/$path_component//i;

print $path, "\n\n";

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