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If one is trying to escape filenames etc in a situation like this I prefer 
"start soffice \Q$file\E";

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"start soffice \"$file\"";

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that way anything weird in the string is escaped, including " chars that may be in it... of course, the list version of system is safer.

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Re^3: how to open a file with space in its name
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 05, 2006 at 15:37 UTC

    Which will not work for Win32 filenames, as a file named c\:\\autoexec\.bat does not exist.

    Also, the quoting rule of double quotes (") is different for cmd.exe too - "" gets converted to ", """ gets converted to "" and so on. I think. In any case, quotemeta is not what you want when quoting strings for cmd.exe or command.com.

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      Too true... I have written Perl on Windows all of about twice, so I tend to be biased towards Unix-style programming, my bad.

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