Check your associations - when you run a perl script from Windows, it is usually associated with pl2bat (I have not used Windows in a while - the bat file name may have changed) - which is supposed to pass in arguments thus: 
perl -w scriptname.pl "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "%5" "%6" "%7" "%8" "%9"

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It is likely that in your windows 8 case, the arguments %* are missing in the bat file that invokes the script.

To avoid this, Try running your script like this: 

perl testarg a b c

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and post your results.

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In reply to Re: Why doesn't @ARGV work? by NetWallah
in thread Why doesn't @ARGV work? by LloydRice

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