Well I just saw this from the OP:
@ARGV = ("C:/Program Files/Perl Express/sample.txt", "some hash");

@ARGV is a special Perl variable that contains the command line arguments. A similar thing exists in other languages. In 'C' you also get argc which is the count of the argv strings, e.g. int main(int argc, char **argv), but argc is redundant because argv is a null terminated array of pointers to strings and therefore calculating argc is trivial. Perl uses @ARGV for the purpose of passing command line args and the scalar value of @ARGV is what 'C' calls argc.

Nobody but the O/S should set @ARGV.

In reply to Re^3: How to escape white space in command line arguments by Marshall
in thread How to escape white space in command line arguments by GoForIt

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