in reply to MS system open file with space

Writing this without a Windows machine at hand, but what about using list form of system instead? It should escape the arguments for you. 
system ('start', $dir_to_open);

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Does this solve the problem?

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Re^2: MS system open file with space
by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Feb 21, 2013 at 13:54 UTC
    When a pathname includes spaces, windows requires double quotes around the entire path, as BrowserUK has already shown.
    Bill
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