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If you put single-quotes around your 'text strings' in your call to the perl script, it will solve the problem you mentioned(empty strings), plus allow spaces in the text.

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Re^2: Problem with getting the correct arguments for my local Perl script
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 05, 2014 at 19:34 UTC

    * Fine print: May not work on your OS.

    OP: This is really more of a PHP question than a Perl question, so you might want to ask there. Some quick Googling seems to show that PHP doesn't support the more fine-grained control of arguments passed to other commands that Perl supports, but I may have missed something.

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