Hi,
Here is a snippet of my code: 

foreach my $elem (@repos)
{
  (my $repo_name = $elem) =~ s/$svnroot//i;
  print "$repo_name\n";
}

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$svnroot is equal to e:\svn (yes this is on win32).
$elem is equal to e:\svn\firmware\AGV5

so... I'm trying to create a $repo_name that only includes the firmware\AGV5 by replacing the e:\svn with null. Only, it doesn't work. In the search expression, if I replace the $svnroot with s/e:\\svn//i it works.

I've seen numerous examples of using a variable in the search expression... what could I be doing wrong?

TIA,

gheard

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