My issue should be simple but it's driving me crazy. What I am doing is trying to verify whether or not a folder path exists by reading a users input. Here is what I have now but it returns nothing

print "What do you want to save?\n";
my $inp = <>;
$inp =~ s/\\/\//g;
if ($inp !~ m/^\w+$|^.+$/g)
{
    do 
    {
    print "Nothing Entered.  Try Again - ";
    $inp = <>;
    }
    until ($inp =~ m/^\w+$|^.+$/g)
}
        if ( -d $inp)
        { print "Folder exists! - \n" }

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I eventually would like to verify a file but for now the directory is all I need. Any help would be appreciated

In reply to Verifying If a directory exists by edimusrex

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