On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:49:30PM -0700, Anthony Baratta wrote:
> >    my @command = ( 'perl', '"my test.pl"', 'first arg1', '"second arg2"' );
> >
> >You did name the test program "my test.pl", right?
> 
> OK - I'm being stupid. You wanted the name to be my test.pl *with my and 
> the space*. Sorry about that - here's the output of that:

Ok, and what version of Windows?

Doesn't seem like the double-quotes are required (but they are
stripped).  So, doesn't seem like I need to wrap arguments in double
quotes -- but would need to escape them so Windows doesn't remove
them.  Broken behavior -- I wonder where that's happening.

Thanks,


> 
> C:\Program Files\SWISH-E\indexes\Tmp>bill_test_1.pl
> Name "main::w" used only once: possible typo at C:\Program 
> Files\SWISH-E\indexes
> \Tmp\bill_test_1.pl line 11.
> Bad file descriptor at C:\Program Files\SWISH-E\indexes\Tmp\bill_test_1.pl line
> 18, <r> line 3.
> Pid = 4784
> output:
> 4784 [first arg1]
> 4784 [second arg2]
> 4784 done
> done
> 
> 

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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