in reply to Re^2: Processing All Files in a Directory Recursively under Windows OS
in thread Processing All Files in a Directory Recursively under Windows OS

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Your variable $root is not what you think it is. Print it out like this:

my $root = "Hello world";
print "Root is >>$root<<\n";

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In your case, when you read $root from STDIN it has a newline appended to it. You should remove that by using the chomp function:

chomp $root;

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