If you want only the directory part, use File::Basename, like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(rel2abs);
use File::Basename;
print dirname(rel2abs($0));
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Using a regex here is calling for trouble.

Christian Lemburg
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