How would you handle that if you were typing start ..... on the command line? There are some Windows utilities that don't play nice with spaces in the path names, and for those you usually have to use quoting.

That being the case, you're not looking at a Perl problem, you're looking at a "I don't know how to use my operating system." problem. That's alright. But you should at least be aware where the issue is.

Try this (untested, but ...at least try it... ;)

system( 
  qq/start "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft LifeCam\\LifeCam.exe"/ 
);

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Dave

In reply to Re^3: Launch an exe using system by davido
in thread Launch an exe using system by priyaviswam

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