I've read perlmonks a lot recently, but this is the first time I have ever posted here (Hooray for the lurkers!). I ran into a problem that has me kind of stumped. Basically, I am automating a build process for win2k in MS Embedded C++ using activestate perl, and I am having issues with multiple sets of quotation marks. Here's the relevant code: 
my $proggie = '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft eMbedded Tools\Common\EVC\B
+in\EVC.EXE"';
my $switch = ' /MAKE "Project - Win32 Debug"';
print $proggie . "\n";
system $proggie;
print $proggie . $switch . "\n";
system $proggie . $switch;
'"C:\Program Files\Microsoft eMbedded Tools\Common\EVC\Bin\EVC.EXE" /M
+AKE "Project - Win32 Debug"';

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The issue is in the last two lines (6 and 7). Line 4 starts up the program beautifully by itself, as expected. Line 5 prints out what I think system() should be sending to the command line. And line 6 returns this error: 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Which of course has me baffled because I have not altered the path to $proggie in any way, I just added a switch with quotation marks. Line 7 returns the same error (It is what line 5 prints out, enclosed in backticks), but if I cut and paste the contents of line 7 (Ignoring the backticks of course) into the command line directly, it works beautifully. What the heck is going on? Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Ivar

In reply to Win32 System() Weirdness by Anonymous Monk

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