Re^2: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script

The quoting gets lost when the shell parses the command line arguments.

I'm not an expert, but I thought that part of the issue is that on Windows, that's actually not what happens? I'm looking at Re^3: Perl Rename.

Update: Unless with that sentence you were referring to *NIX systems, in which case you're right of course.

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Re^3: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script by haj (Vicar) on Apr 16, 2021 at 15:42 UTC
Ah, you're correct, of course. That was my initial thought (because that's how it is done in Linux), but then I read the docs of Win32::ShellQuote which tells a different story: Windows passes its arguments as a single string instead of an array as other platforms do. - and then I copied a presumably relevant part of that docs into my reply without correcting the first sentence. BTW: Windows has other ... interesting ... challenges when parsing command line arguments. Try this: `perl -E "say @ARGV" €`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script
by haj (Vicar) on Apr 16, 2021 at 15:42 UTC

Ah, you're correct, of course. That was my initial thought (because that's how it is done in Linux), but then I read the docs of Win32::ShellQuote which tells a different story:

Windows passes its arguments as a single string instead of an array as other platforms do.

BTW: Windows has other ... interesting ... challenges when parsing command line arguments. Try this:

perl -E "say @ARGV" €

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