This is just a curiosity. I understand Perl's behavior when parsing \" off of the win32 command line. Is there a way to handle the behavior in Perl, rather than expecting the user to adapt to my program?

For those who aren't familiar with this behavior: 

foreach (@ARGV){print "'$_'\n";}

EXAMPLE A
parameters - "A A\" B
output - 'A A" B'

EXAMPLE B
parameters - "A A" B
output - 'A A'
output - 'B'

#example B is how batch files (and all apps I've used) behave in
windows.  Also, \ is the path delimiter in windows, so it's natural
to have one at the end of an argument.

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I've asked on the chatterbox, and one wise monk suggested that user education was the best solution. This is a fine for my purposes. However, I'm still curious if anyone has another idea?

In reply to \" on the WinXP Command Line by Ardemus

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