Perl Command Line Arguments

iamravikanth has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I want to send the following string as a single command line argument in Perl. "A B C D" but whenever i send such a string it treats them as 4 variables, but I need to send it as a single argument. How do I achieve this. Regards, Ravi.

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Re: Perl Command Line Arguments by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 02, 2010 at 14:38 UTC
Either by quoting, or by using the LIST form of system.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Command Line Arguments by iamravikanth (Novice) on Jun 02, 2010 at 15:15 UTC
Can you please give an example of quotes?	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Command Line Arguments by AR (Friar) on Jun 02, 2010 at 15:20 UTC
`$ perl -e 'print ">$_<\n" for @ARGV' A B C D >A< >B< >C< >D< $ perl -e 'print ">$_<\n" for @ARGV' "A B C D" >A B C D<` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Command Line Arguments by dineed (Scribe) on Jun 03, 2010 at 01:32 UTC
maybe try: `yourscript.pl "A B C D"`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Command Line Arguments by Hena (Friar) on Jun 03, 2010 at 13:07 UTC
You have to quote them in execution as dineed mentioned above. The shell you are using is separating the characters (strings) instead of perl interpreter. So you need: `script.pl "A B C"`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Command Line Arguments by littlemonk (Sexton) on Jun 04, 2010 at 05:39 UTC
try single quotes instead of double quotes....	[reply]