Hi,
I'm invoking a java app from within my perl script on windows using backticks since I need to capture the output. The classpath contains spaces in the directory names like "C:\Program Files\ABC". Whenever I run this script, I get the error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Files/ABC
This is clearly due to the spaces. I've tried enclosing the classpath within quotes but the problem doesnt go away. When I execute the same command using system(), it works just fine.
The same error occurs when using open(FILE,"$cmd|") where $cmd is the java command which includes the classpath in the arguments to java.
Any help in this is appreciated.
Thanks.

In reply to CLASSPATH problem when using backticks by maithree

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