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

Not exactly what you want, but note that windows does allow you to escape quotes.

>perl -E"say qq(@ARGV)" "\"1 2\" \"3\" 4"
"1 2" "3" 4
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Re^2: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script by LanX (Saint) on Apr 16, 2021 at 15:45 UTC
cmd.exe is also allowing unclosed quotes, with is frankly a PITA `D:\tmp\exp>perl -E"say join'\|',@ARGV" "1\" 2" "3 1" 2\|3` [download] And I already noticed that the escaped quotes are killing my workaround `D:\tmp\exp>type cmd_wrapper.bat @echo off echo %\| perl.exe .\wrapped_pl.pl D:\tmp\exp>cmd_wrapper.bat "1\" 2" "1\" 2"\| perl.exe .\wrapped_pl.pl` [download] what seems to happen is that `%` is expanded like a macro before executing the bat The second quote is not considered escaped for echo The pipe is seen as part of an unclosed "string" hence the call to perl.exe is echo'ed like a string and never executed Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 16, 2021 at 15:45 UTC

D:\tmp\exp>perl -E"say join'|',@ARGV" "1\" 2" "3
1" 2|3
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And I already noticed that the escaped quotes are killing my workaround

D:\tmp\exp>type cmd_wrapper.bat
@echo off
echo %*| perl.exe .\wrapped_pl.pl


D:\tmp\exp>cmd_wrapper.bat "1\" 2"
"1\" 2"| perl.exe .\wrapped_pl.pl
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what seems to happen is that

%* is expanded like a macro before executing the bat
The second quote is not considered escaped for echo
The pipe is seen as part of an unclosed "string"
hence the call to perl.exe is echo'ed like a string and never executed

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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