Hi,

I am calling perl from within Java using
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process proc = rt.exec(cmdLine)

One of the arguments that I pass to perl is a quoted string (containing multiple words) that perl should accept as a single argument. The problem is that Perl breaks this string in to multiple arguments.

I have tried double quotes and single quotes.

I can run this on the command line without a problem it is only when i run it from within Java that the problem occurs.
Here is an example of the command
/usr/bin/perl myperlScript.pl argument1 "this is a test"

Perl interprets this as
ARGV 0 argument1
ARGV 1 this
ARGV 2 is
ARGV 3 a
ARGV 4 test

what I would like it to be is
ARGV 0 argument1
ARGV 1 this is a test

thanks

In reply to ARGV issue. by philiotis

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