in reply to \" on the WinXP Command Line

Is there a way to handle the behavior in Perl

Afraid not. The shell parses the arguments before Perl ever sees them.

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Re: Re: \" on the WinXP Command Line
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 25, 2004 at 21:02 UTC
    Not in Windows. The shell passes the entire command-line "tail" to the .exe file, and that parses before calling main().
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