OK .. I did RTFM in the end.. and after due deliberation came up with:

my $programtorun  =  'spawnee';
my $parameters    =  'a b c flapjack sweets monkeybusiness';
my @cmdline       =  ( $programtorun, $parameters );
system ( @cmdline );
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.. which runs spawnee

if ( @ARGV )
    {
    foreach ( split(' ', $ARGV[0] ) )
        {
        print "Parameter is $_\n";
        }
    }
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Do i get my 1 point back now. please .. sir ?

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