in reply to Simple modules

Either use forward slashes in your pathname literals (even on windows; perl'll sort it out for you), or double your backslashes to avoid them being treated as escapes: 

my $name = "C:/karate/kid/sucks";
# or
my $name = "C:\\karate\\kid\\sucks";

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