I tested this on Windows XP with ActiveState Perl v5.8.8

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

foreach (@ARGV) {
    print "Staring:  NOTEPAD $_\n";
    system ("start notepad $_")
}

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{C} > test \AUTOEXEC.BAT "\Documents and Settings\601404184\My Documents\mcafee.txt" test.pl
Staring: NOTEPAD \AUTOEXEC.BAT
Staring: NOTEPAD \Documents and Settings\601404184\My Documents\mcafee.txt
Staring: NOTEPAD test.pl

{C} >

NOTE: That's the output you see in CMD.EXE window. Also, three instances of NOTEPAD.EXE open, with each file in one of the Notepads.

Does that answer the question re: double-quotes for file names? The second argument had spaces and the first two had backslashes, also could be an issue, but handled fine. I understand slashes would be the other way on *nix path names and spaces would need to be escaped so I don't know how well this would work. Also, you wouldn't use "start" in the system() call; rather, an ampersand (&) to launch the program in the background perhaps?

In reply to Re^3: Multiple Instances by VinsWorldcom
in thread Multiple Instances by TheBasilisk

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