The perl.exe program contains common code supplied by the compiler that parses the command tail into words which it then passes to main() as argv. If you recompile perl.exe, you can change that with some effort, or ignore it with less effort: at the top of main call GetCommandLine, parse it the way you please, re-point argv to your own array. The rest of the program will be none the wiser.

But if you don't mind perl itself getting flags in its usual way, you can affect parsing of the arguments to your script from within Perl. Ignore ARGV and parse the string from GetCommandLine within the program. If it's not available already in some module, just use Win32::API to import it.

—John

In reply to Re: \" on the WinXP Command Line by John M. Dlugosz
in thread \" on the WinXP Command Line by Ardemus

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