in reply to Problem with regex substitution within windows paths

Your string replacement contains characters that are special to the regex engine. See perlop on \Q resp. quotemeta.

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Re^2: Problem with regex substitution within windows paths
by halfcountplus (Hermit) on Jul 08, 2011 at 17:42 UTC

    > characters that are special to the regex engine

    Namely, \, the escape character itself. So you need to escape the escape: \\.

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Re^2: Problem with regex substitution within windows paths
by jmb (Novice) on Jul 11, 2011 at 12:32 UTC
    Thank you Corion ! The code now works : 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;


my $path = join ';', (
    'D:\aa\bb\cc',
    'D:\dd\ee\ff',
    'D:\gg\hh\ii',
);

my $path_component = quotemeta( 'D:\aa\bb\cc;' );

print $path, "\n\n";

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

print $path, "\n\n";

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    ... and, more importantly, I've now understood what was going wrong...
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