Thanks, I was hoping for such modules ... :)

... but

> The quoting gets lost when the shell parses the command line arguments.

AFAIK that's true on Linux but not on Win

quoting Win32::ShellQuote

> Windows passes its arguments as a single string instead of an array as other platforms do. In almost all cases, the standard Win32 CommandLineToArgvW function is used to parse this string

So the win-built of Perl is deconstructing the input-line into @ARGV. (we had a similar discussion not long ago)

Hence it's not unthinkable to have a special var akin to %* in Perl to access that original line.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script by LanX
in thread (Windows) verbatim command line arguments inside Perl script by LanX

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