Hi Charlie, On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 07:50:22PM -0700, charlie strauss wrote: > You might think, "well just join the @ARGV array and voila!: but > this is not exactly the same thing. the main differtence is that > perl removes any surrounding quotation marks of the split arguments.
I don't think that perl takes them away. Your shell interprets them and so they are gone in perl. You can backslash or single quote them on command line and than they will be where you expect them. Example. perl \"first arg\" '"second arg"' HTH Rpbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
