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Usually you just have to wrap in shell parsed quotes: 

my $url = '"C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html"';
system "start $url";

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That should do it, as it will pass to the shell the following: 

start "C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html"

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HTH!


Dave

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Re^2: System command clips off last part of local url when folder name has a space in it
by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 16, 2004 at 18:44 UTC
    No luck. For whatever reason, it opens a command window only in the Phi Kap directory and I get the C:> staring back at me. It won't launch the browser at all.

    Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.
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      I'm not sure if this means you haven't solved your problem yet or not. In case it does, this works for me regardless of where the url comes from:

      Update: Corrected typo: s[start][system]. 

      my $urlWithSpaces = 'C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html';
system qq["$url"];

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        my $urlWithSpaces = 'C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html';
start qq["$url"];

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        Where are you getting the bareword 'start' to do something? You also are using two difference variable names. I just get 

        syntax error at - line 2, near "start qq["$url"]"

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        Perhaps you meant: 

        my $url = 'C:/Code/Perl/Phi Kap/temp.html';
system( qq[start "Title" "$url"] );

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        (Note the inclusion of "Title" to tell start that $url isn't a window title desptie it being inside of double quotes.)

        Or perhaps you left off some incantation that makes the code you wrote work?

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        - tye        

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        Thank you BrowserUk, that does indeed work. Davido's suggestion in this node merely opened a window with a command prompt on my system, but wouldn't start the browser.

        I thought there should be some way to take advantage of windows auto loading programs based on their extentions. Thanks again!

        Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.
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