In your second example,

But, when run at a DOS prompt, the command: C:\>"echo hello" produces '"echo hello"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Why is there an expectation that Perl is involved at all? It looks like you threw a string in double quotes at cmd.exe.

If you simply: C:\>echo hello you get: hello because echo is a DOS internal command.

Perhaps your original example didn't need the double quotes?

C:\>perl -e "print STDERR `echo hello`"; produces hello

and I've found that when I wanted double-quotes in my on-liners on Windows, I needed (ready for absurdity?) triple double-quotes.

C:\>perl -e "print STDERR `echo """hello"""`"; produces "hello"

I humbly seek wisdom.

In reply to Re: Quotable Quotes by goibhniu
in thread Quotable Quotes by b4swine

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