Hello Monks!
I have script which uses GetOptions to parse options. My script allows the to use the --job option to pass everything the user wants (scripts, additional parameters, etc.). For example: 
my_script.pl --option1 --option2 --job some_job.pl -option1 --option2 
+--option3

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My script runs the some_job.pl -option1 --option2 --option3 part at some point. ​Before the GetOptions parse, I have the following code: 
my $job_flag = 0;
foreach my $i (0..$#ARGV) {
   ​$opt{"job"} .= $ARGV[$i]." " if($job_flag);
   ​$job_flag = 1 if($ARGV[$i] =~ /^(\-\-|\-)job$/);
   ​undef $ARGV[$i] if($job_flag);
}

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The code just saves everything after --job into the $opt{job} and removes it from the ARGV so GetOptions won't parse it. Now I noticed that if there is quotes inside the job part, it will remove those quotes. For example: 
my_script.pl --option1 --option2 --job some_job.pl -option1 'some_job2
+.pl -x abc' -option2

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Then the Dumper of ARGS is: 
$VAR1 = [                                                             
+                                                                     
+       
          '--option1',
          '--option2',
          '--job',
          'some_job.pl',
          '-option1',
          'some_job2.pl -x abc',
          '-option2'
        ];

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I would expect: 
$VAR1 = [                                                             
+                                                                     
+       
          '--option1',
          '--option2',
          '--job',
          'some_job.pl',
          '-option1',
          '\'some_job2.pl -x abc\'',
          '-option2'
        ];

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How can I know that there were quotes? I guess I'll need to think of another way to do this.

So there won't happen and X-Y problem, I'll explain what I'm trying to do. I want to get user's command and execute it at some point. It could have parameters and I don't want the user to insert it into file first. How can it be done?

2021-06-25 Athanasius fixed code tag.

In reply to @ARGV ignores quotes by ovedpo15

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