note zentara I get your code to run, and observe the error of / not being accepted. Your code is a bit complicated, and I will look at it, but just as a first comment I noticed one oddity. If you enter a \ instead of a /, a / will be inserted properly. ?? This link <a href=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/922221/perl-getcwd-ending-forward-slashes> perl-getcwd-ending-forward-slashes</a> may yield a clue.<p> I'm wondering why you even use File::Spec's catdir? The docs say <p> catdir<br> Concatenate two or more directory names to form a complete path ending with a directory. But remove the trailing slash from the resulting string, because it doesn't look good, isn't necessary and confuses OS/2. Of course, if this is the root directory, don't cut off the trailing slash :-) <p>When I comment out all the File::Spec canonpath and catdir lines from your script, it adds a / just fine. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-131741"> <hr /> I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.<br> [id://630805] ................... <a href=http://zentara.net/japh.html> flash japh </a> </div></div> 997416 997462