The third arg of Win32::Process::Create is a command line, not an argument for the program. See CreateProcess for details.

However, it's much easier to use the multiple argument form of system rather than quoting:

my $app = 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\excel.exe';
my $arg = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\my.dir\\My Documents\\My Compan
+y\\QA\\$newFilename";

system($app, $arg);
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Thank you all for the replies. Will definitely give it a
shot as soon as possible. FYI, I do use strict and
warning, but all I had posted was a snippet.
Thanks again!

Hello Monks,
well, I am still having issues with this script I am trying to write. The double quotes following the 'QA' in the output I believe is responsible for not allowing excel to find the dynamically created file thus generating a file not found error... any suggestions on the matter? Here is a snippet of the script:

my $app = '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe"';
my $arg = '"C:\Documents and Settings\my.name\My Documents\My Company\
+QA\"' . $newFilename;

#system("$app $arg");
print $app . "\n";
print $arg;
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My output = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\my.name\My Documents\My Company\QA\"TestingWorksheet_07232009.xlsx

To use a path which contains spaces in a win32 command window, you have to surround the path in quotes. Otherwise the interpreter sees the first space delimited text as the command and each following delimited text as arguments to that command.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $app = '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\excel.exe"';

my $arg = '"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\data\
+Excel\temp.xls"';

system("$app $arg");
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Also, please remember to

use strict;
use warnings;
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Update:
You'll need to do the same thing with your args. Updated code with a tested and working mini-script.

my $app = 'C:\"Program Files"\"Microsoft Office"\Office12\excel.exe';

my $arg = "C:\\\"Documents and Settings\"\\my.dir\\\"My Documents\"\\\
+"My Company\"\\QA\\$newFilename";

#Win32::Process::Create( $Win32processObj,$app,$arg,0,NORMAL_PRIORITY_
+CLASS,"." )
#         or die "Aborting... creating process failed due to $!\n";

system("$app $arg");
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Incidentally, if you'd like to avoid some of the excessive use of escaping characters, take a look at quotemeta and/or Quote and Quote like Operators (\Q and \E).

my $app = '\"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe\"';

print $app # "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel.exe"
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