in reply to Calling a script from a script with GetOpt::Long arguments

This seems to work for me:

system ("perl.exe", "heavylifter.pl", "--file", $i, "--db", "my da +tabase") ;

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Re^2: Calling a script from a script with GetOpt::Long arguments
by jjap (Monk) on Mar 03, 2015 at 08:24 UTC
    So it does for me as well! And it seems now embarrassingly obvious...

    Many thanks!