in reply to Take in command line arguments as an entire string?

You want the variables to be interpolated.

Try  my $args = qq{@ARGV};

You could also use plain double quotes instead.

Or join " ", @ARGV

Cheers Rolf
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Re^2: Take in command line arguments as an entire string?
by proxie (Novice) on Aug 22, 2018 at 05:42 UTC
    Thanks! Those worked.
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