You can also try using regular expression substitution:

  my $slashes = '\\\\10.0.0.1\path\to\foo';
  print "before: $slashes\n";
  $slashes =~ s/\\/\//g;
  print "after.: $slashes\n";
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Which yields...

before: \\10.0.0.1\path\to\foo
after.: //10.0.0.1/path/to/foo
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