Why to you escape the colon in the path?
it leads to a strange behaviour i cant explain:
perl -e "print qq(c\:\\other)"
c:\other

perl -e "print qq(c:\\other)"
c:\other

#Consider in Perl on win you can use the backslash too in path
#
perl -e "$path = qq(c:/windows); print qq(Exists and is a directory!\n
+) if -e -d $path"
Exists and is a directory!

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UPDATE: as explained by Corion this is due to:
Because \: interpolates to : in double quotes
Basically, the leading backslash includes the next character as is (unless it's a special combination, like \n, \r , \a, \b , ...
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In reply to Re: Doesn't like a Scalar, as a folder path by Discipulus
in thread Doesn't like a Scalar, as a folder path by ArifS

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