I'm trying to remove for example 'C:\temp' from Windows paths, and this works (prints 'new path: \dest'):

my $path = "C:\\temp\\dest";

$path =~ s/C:\\temp//i;

print "new path: $path\n";
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But I need to use a variable, and this doesn't work (prints 'new path: C:\temp\dest'):

my $srcDir = "C:\\temp";
my $path = "C:\\temp\\dest";

$path =~ s/$srcDir//i;

print "new path: $path\n";
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And it dies on this line, but I don't know why (prints 'Died at sub.pl line 4.'):

$path =~ s/$srcDir//i or die;
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Another example of a substitution using variables that does not work (prints 'Died at sub2.pl line 5.'):

my $srcDir = "C:\\temp";
my $destDir = "C:\\temp2";
my $path = "C:\\temp\\dest";

$path =~ s/$srcDir/$destDir/i or die;

print "new path: $path\n";
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