This seems to be more an shell issue than a Perl issue. You need to properly quote arguments that contain whitespace in your command line:

perl report.pl -CustomerName "Penelope NY" > test.txt
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As a matter of style, I recommend using Getopt::Long, possibly together with Pod::Usage to create the command-line handling parts for scripts. A detailed discussion is at The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan!, by PodMaster.

With that, your command line would have to look like this:

perl report.pl --CustomerName "Penelope NY" > test.txt
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And the command line handling code in your program would be:

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

GetOptions(
    'CustomerName' => \my @customers,
    ...
);

for my $customer (@customer) {
    print "Hello $customer!\n";
};
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Chapter 11 of Mastering Perl is all about configuring Perl programs, including command line parsing and options.

You haven't provided any code, so we can't see what's actually happen (and thus help you). I'm not sure which module allows long switches with single hyphens and a space between the value either. Typically, however, the command line parsers parse what they can and leave the rest in @ARGV. Check some of the examples in Mastering Perl to see if one of them is what you need.

And, post a small test program the demonstrates your problem. Include what you expected it to do and what it actually does. :)

Good luck, :)

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
my $location;
my $name;
if(!GetOptions(
    "name",
    "location=s"=> \$location
    )
  )
{
    print "\nUnknown options have been provided\n";
}
$name=join(" ",@ARGV);
print "Name is $name and location is $location";
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perl 650479.pl -name Ram Sam Dam Yam -location Germany
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$ cat clo.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -s

use strict;
use warnings;
use vars qw($company $location);

$company ||= 'NO_COMPANY';
$location ||= 'NO_LOCATION';

printf "The %s company is located at $location\n",
       $company, $location;

$ ./clo.pl
The NO_COMPANY company is located at NO_LOCATION

$ ./clo.pl -company='Grant Alpho System'
The Grant Alpho System company is located at NO_LOCATION

$ ./clo.pl -company='Grant Alpho System' -location=TheOtherGlobe
The Grant Alpho System company is located at TheOtherGlobe
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Or, if you only want to read a location with more customers, you can read from @ARGV yourself.

$ cat report.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my($location, @customers) = @ARGV;
die "Can't create report, no customer defined\n" unless @customers;

print "The following customers are located at $location\n";
my $i;
for (@customers) {
  print ++$i, ". $_\n";
}

$ ./report.pl
Can't create report, no customer defined

$ ./report.pl NY Penelope Abraham Marie 'John Doe'
The following customers are located at NY
1. Penelope
2. Abraham
3. Marie
4. John Doe
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