Works for me (see below).

Cases where it does not work are where there are unicode chars in the file names, which is when Win32::LongPath is very useful.

perl -We "print -e 'C:\Users'"
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perl -v

This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread

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Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
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GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

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