Hi,
Am writing a basic webserver where I need to check if a the requested URI has a slash at the end or not and respond appropriately according to the condition. 
my $DOCROOT = '/home/agn/htdocs';

if (-e $DOCROOT.$uri) {
            if (-f $DOCROOT.$uri) {
                if (-r $DOCROOT.$uri) {
                    logme("200 HTTP OK\n");
                    $status_code = 200;
                } else {
                    logme("403 Forbidden\n");
                    $status_code = 403;
                }
            } elsif (-d $DOCROOT.$uri) {
                if (-r $DOCROOT.$uri
                        && -x $DOCROOT.$uri
                        && ($DOCROOT.$uri !~ /\/$/)) {
                    logme("301 Moved Permanently\n");
                    $status_code = 301;
                } elsif (-r $DOCROOT.$uri && -x $DOCROOT.$uri) {
                        logme("200 HTTP OK\n");
                        $status_code = 200;
                } else {
                    logme("403 Forbidden\n");
                    $status_code = 403;
                }
            } else {
                logme("406 Not Acceptable\n");
                $status_code = 406;
            }
        } else {
            logme("404 Not Found\n");
            $status_code = 404;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

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The problem is that whether the $DOCROOT.$uri contains a / at the end or not, it always sets $status_code to 301.
$DOCROOT.$uri !~ m/\/$/
The above condition isn't being checked. Or if it is, I have a bug in the RE. Any ideas ?

In reply to problem with if condition by agn

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