Re: Getting perl to recognise imbedded spaces.
Thank you all for your help thus far. LTjake said my code worked for him, so I tried it again and it does work! The code actually runs from a PL2BAT file which is running an old version of Perl 5.005 though, this doesn't work, though 5.6.1 does work. Do you know why? I may need this to work on the old version for distribution to clients. 
\\PRIMARY\PERL5005\BIN\perl -x -S "%0" %*
if NOT "%COMSPEC%" == "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" goto endofperl
if %errorlevel% == 9009 echo You do not have Perl in your PATH.
goto endofperl
@rem ';
#!perl -w

$ENV{TYPE}=q("c:\scotts test\type me");
$new_debug_log=q("c:\scotts test\type me.bat");
my $rc = system("$ENV{TYPE} $new_debug_log");

__END__
:endofperl

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