Hello,

I'm trying to call a Perl script from another passing few arguments. One of my arguments has a path variable which has white spaces embedded in it. I know how to escape the white space when I know the value of the variable in advance. But how do I escape the white spaces in a scalar variable that's being passed as an argument to a script called inside another script.

For instance, we could escape the white space and read $path as one whole string till the end

 my $path = "C:/\"Program Files\"/\"Perl Express\"/example.txt;

Now, I'm trying to pass one such $path variable and a hash as arguments to a script.

@ARGV = ("C:/Program Files/Perl Express/sample.txt", "some hash"); # I
+ dunno the path value in advance. This is just an example
system("C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe /path/to/the/script @ARGV");

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When I try to print this ARGV in the other script, it reads C:/Program and Files/Perl as first and second arguments.

Is there a way that I could escape such white spaces?

Thanks,

In reply to How to escape white space in command line arguments by GoForIt

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