I guess the equivalent on Unix would be something like:

perl -E 'say for grep $_, split /:/, $ENV{PATH}'
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However, the grep filters out the empty string. And so does the 2-arg split. But empty strings in PATHs under Unix are significant. So, I'd write:

perl -E 'say for split /:/, $ENV{PATH}, -1'
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