I have a perl script test.pl which reads arguments from the command line 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
for( @ARGV ) { print( "$_\n" ) } ;

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This works well when I pass parameters like "a b" "c d" e on the command line
The result is:

a b
c d
e

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If I declare a variable

X='"a b" "c d" e'

and then run

test.pl $X

I get

"a
b"
"c
d"
e

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I need to run the perl script from various shell scripts as a helper function and the parameters are calculated by those scripts.
The parameter count is not fixed so I have to pass it as a list.
Alas I cannot find a way to get the perl program handle my parameters as desired.
I have thought of passing the parameters through file but then the manual invocation of the perl script from the command line becomes awkward.
How can I get the perl script preserve the spaces in the paramters?

In reply to passing parameters from shell script to perl program doesn't preserve spaces [solved] by peterbk

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