Umm .. If you only need the working directory, I would suggest using FindBin instead, as it is platform independent.

use strict;
use warnings;
use FindBin;

print $FindBin::Bin, "\n"; # prints c:\dev\temp\monks\
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A quick glance at the POD for Win32 shows that Win32::GetLongPathName in list context returns the path and the file as two different components. It seems to me that you are trying to do this:

use Win32;

my( $path, $filename ) = Win32::GetFullPathName( $0 );
my $longpath = Win32::GetFullPathName( $path );

print $longpath; # prints c:\dev\temp\monks\
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Here I find the path and filename component and stuff them into variables. Then I attempt to translate $path to a long path with the second call to Win32::GetFullPathName. This works on my machine with Activestate Perl 5.8 and Windows XP.

Hope this helps.

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