Ah, this was excellent for helping working on my debugging abilities. Here is what I did.

I ran a regex on the $gamedir variable to match the first non-character character and replace it with a "*". Sure enough there was an invisible character at the end of the string but I do not think it was a '\r' as I had already used s regex to strip '\r' (admittedly I may have done that part incorrectly though)...code to follow. Anway, I decided to simply chop() the last character (hoping there was only one) and that worked. Here is the code and output:

Finding the problem

    my $funcName     = (caller(0))[3];
    my $player_name  = shift;
    my $mapname      = shift;
   (my $gamedir      = &send(1,"sv_gamedir"))
                     =~ s/.*: (.*)[\r\n]+/$1/;

    (my $testgamedir = $gamedir) =~ s/\W/*/;
    print STDERR "\$HOME = $HOME\n\$testgamedir = $testgamedir\n\$mapn
+ame = $mapname\n";
[download]

output:

$HOME = /services/qw
$testgamedir = fortress*
$mapname = 2fort5
Map doesn't exist! -> /services/qw/fortress/maps/2fort5.bsp
[download]

As we can see by the

fortress*

that there was at least one white character there.

After chop()

    my $funcName     = (caller(0))[3];
    my $player_name  = shift;
    my $mapname      = shift;
   (my $gamedir      = &send(1,"sv_gamedir"))
                     =~ s/.*: (.*)[\r\n]+/$1/;
    chop($gamedir);

    (my $testgamedir = $gamedir) =~ s/\W/*/;
    print STDERR "\$HOME = $HOME\n\$testgamedir = $testgamedir\n\$mapn
+ame = $mapname\n";
[download]

output:

$HOME = /services/qw
$testgamedir = fortress
$mapname = 2fort5
Map exists! -> /services/qw/fortress/maps/2fort5.bsp
[download]

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- Jim

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