Trying to set the iCloud directory in Perl, but failing

I have:
my $MyiCloudLoc = q[~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs];

Then:
chdir($MyiCloudLoc) or die "$!";

Error is “no such file or directory”

Yet if I do the following in terminal:

Cd  ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

It changes to that directory.

Seems simple, but not understanding what I am doing wrong.

Thanks for any info… ;)

Wags ;)
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