Fellow monks,

I'm trying to launch IE, from a Tk app, to display a local html file using the following code: 

my $url = 'C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html';
system "start $url";

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but I get a window popping up saying that XP doesn't know how to open file "Phi".

How do I get Perl to pass the entire URL that I've defined in $url so that it all goes through, and doesn't die at Phi? I had thought that wrapping the string in ' ' would cause Perl to evaluate it as an entire string.

Can this be done or is this a problem within XP?

Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.

In reply to System command clips off last part of local url when folder name has a space in it by Popcorn Dave

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