in reply to Re: Replace $a with $b if $a ne $b
in thread Replace $a with $b if $a ne $b

You shouldn't use a regex to split the filename from the path. Better take File::Basename for that. 
use File::Basename;
my ($name,$path) = fileparse($fullname);

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holli, /regexed monk/

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