There is no such limitation, if you do it right: 
$ cat foo.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

if (@ARGV){
    print Dumper \@ARGV;
} else {
    system $^X, $0, "a\nb";
}
__END__
$ perl foo.pl
$VAR1 = [
          'a
b'
        ];

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You can see that the script calls a copy of itself, and both lines of a\nb are passed correctly to the second copy (tested on Linux).

Which makes me think that you're doing something wrong.

In reply to Re^3: WWW::Mechanize help by moritz
in thread WWW::Mechanize help by ZimCS

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