Fired up ye olde VM, and found the solution. You see, you can write a batch script that does the parsing for you... it looks like this: 

@ECHO OFF
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set ARGS=
 
:parse_args
if not %1.==. (
  set ARG=%1
  set ARGS=!ARGS! ^"!ARG:"=\"!^"
  shift
  goto :parse_args
)

call perl getargs.pl %ARGS%

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I rewrote the perscript to fit the output of your C code, but it is basically the same:

unshift(@ARGV,$0);
for my $n (0..$#ARGV) { print "$n:$ARGV[$n]:\n" }

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The resulting output is then:

C:\>parseargs.bat "abc "" def" bob
0:getargs.pl:
1:"abc "" def":
2:bob:

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Which is not exactly the same what you wanted, but it is actually exactly what you typed in as arguments. Now, it is time to s/""/"/g and you are ready to go. What I mean is:

unshift(@ARGV,$0);
@ARGV = map {s/^"(.*)"$/$1/ ? s/""/"/g && $_ : $_ } @ARGV;
for my $n (0..$#ARGV) { print "$n:$ARGV[$n]:\n" }

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Dont ask why I used map... I am not sober at the moment...

0:getargs.pl:
1:abc " def:
2:bob:

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note to self: do not forget bob

In reply to Re: Parsing Windows CommandLine from Perl by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread Parsing Windows CommandLine from Perl by eyepopslikeamosquito

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