Seems to be the same solution that BrowserUK offered, just packed in a module. It's a bit overkill for my needs, but thank you.

Its not the same, its better. You can use it without ever learning the quoting rules of cmd.exe . You can use it just by learning perl's quoting rules. Its the difference between using a calculator to do multiplication, or pencil and paper :)

If you're interested see also Behind the GUI lives the Shell and How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed

We all started with pencils and paper ;) Thanks for the resources!

Hi, I also have some problem using Perl system call for Windows commands. I used your "system q[]" way to resolve it, but, it didn't work. please see below statement I'm using in my script-

my $system_error = system q[ "C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint 
+Protection Manager\jre\bin\javaw.exe" -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Dcatalina.ho
+me="C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat
+" -Djava.library.path="C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protec
+tion Manager\tomcat\bin;C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Prote
+ction Manager\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib;C:\Program Files\Sample
+\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\clientpkg\ext
+;C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\ASA\win32
+" -jar "C:\Program Files\Sample\Sample Endpoint Protection Manager\bi
+n\inst.jar" sca "C:\Compatibility_Automation_Temp\AutoConfig.xml" ];
print "system error for auto config command-if: $system_error\n";
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Output of the above code is: system error for auto config command-if: 256 whereas, when I run this code on cmd directly, it returns me success. please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.