in reply to 'perl -le' not working on the command line

Because of cmd.exe :) Behind the GUI lives the Shell, perlintro, perlrun 
$ perl -lE " say for @ARGV " -- a s d f  "asdf 'print 2**255;' asdf"  
+'print 2**255;'
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asdf 'print 2**255;' asdf
'print
2**255;'

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Re^2: 'perl -le' not working on the command line
by Anonymous Monk on May 26, 2011 at 10:40 UTC
    To say it explicitly, cmd.exe, turns perl -le 'print 2**255;' into 
    $ perl -le " 'print " "2**255;'"
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

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    that is, the program is 'print , a syntax error. 2**255;' ends up in @ARGV.
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