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in reply to command line and quotes

Escaping your quotes *should* work every-where. Works for me on *nix, Cygwin and Dos-

foo.pl -s \"1 2 3\"

Ignore me I was smoking happy weed that just gives you a quote on the beginning of one argument and the end of the other, serve me right for testing by doing a print " [@ARGV]"...

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