Your regex:

$output =~ s{.*(/)}{$1}

...says to match any number of characters followed by a slash, then replace the whole match with a slash. As a result, if there is a match there is going to be a slash in the output. There's actually no point in even specifying $1 because your substitution is the same as: 

 s{.*/}{/}

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Here are some other solutions:

1. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

use File::Basename;

my @paths = (
    "y:/home/lib/directory/book",
    "y:/home/lib/directory/book_manager",
    "y:/home/lib/directory/piano_book",
);

my @results = map basename($_), @paths;
say "@results";

--output:--
book book_manager piano_book

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2. 

@results = map { (split '/', $_)[-1] } @paths;

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In reply to Re: how to remove everything before last slash in perl? by 7stud
in thread how to remove everything before last slash in perl? by mipatel

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