I have a (probably simple) question about invoking system commands with perl. I know about the `command` operators, but the question involves somewhat of syntax/parsing.

I need to call a perl script test.pl with two arguments. The arguments are variables, and I need them interpolated. The second argument I need to actually combine two variables with a '\' (it's a directory path), and have them, of course, interpolated as well.

Now, I can imagine that
`perl test.pl "$var1" "$var2\\$var3"`
won't work (and is quite atrocious). I tested several variants (making a temporary variable) and none seemed to work (let it be noted that I took the quotes out, and made a test.pl file to print its given arguments; on several tests I got a 'Bad command/filename, etc' error, and several nothing happened at all, save a short pause).

WHAT WILL WORK?

In reply to A question with commands by dimmesdale

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