my @args = ( "compile.exe", "my silly windows directory", "file" );
my $rc = system( @args );
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~Particle

Unfortunately, Win32 only knows how to pass along command lines, not preparsed command-line arguments so multi-argument system doesn't do any good (it could be made to emulate that better, but that is another story). So you just have to put double quotes around any arguments that are paths that might include spaces and hope that the program being invoked follows this general practice and deals with such. If you are indeed throwing bash into the mix, then things probably get more complicated. I'd avoid that.

Alternately you can convert to the "short" path name which would not contain any spaces:

    use Win32;
    my $short= Win32::GetShortPathName($long);
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After Compline,
Zaxo

There is very little common in 'quote regular expression magic characters' (from description of quotemeta) and proper usage of system.

--
Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

quotemeta should work if InstallShield weren't so stupid. It seems that InstallShield can't parse paths with forward slashes in them. The major problem here is that I've got qouted strings inside qouted strings.

my $path = q~"c:\eigene Dateien\anything"~;
print `dir $path`;
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Best regards,

perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"
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