in reply to Has anyone seen perl losing arguments?

Your file association is broken. Specifically, the "%*" is missing in your association. 

>assoc .pl
.pl=Perl

>ftype Perl
Perl="C:\...\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

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Either fix the association using ftype, or don't rely on the extension. 

system("perl 2_CleanXMLfiles.pl \"$now_string\"");

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Re^2: Has anyone seen perl losing arguments?
by ted.byers (Monk) on Sep 29, 2011 at 18:12 UTC

    No, the file association is OK. Files with a pl extension are associated with perl. Execution of my driver scripts relies on that.

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      What does one have to do with the other?

      What's the output of 

      >assoc .pl
.pl=Perl
    ----
      \
       \
        |
        v
       ----
>ftype Perl
???

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