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Funny: 
perl -e "qx(explorer.exe C:\Path\To\my.pdf)"

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opens the explorer, but 
perl -e "qx'explorer.exe C:\Path\To\my.pdf'"

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opens my pdf

only difference is the qx delimiter. (insert smiley with gaping open mouth here)

Perl 5.28.1 MSWin32-x64-multi-thread on Windows [Version 10.0.18363.535]

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Re^5: Win32 wperl open Console when system
by sn1987a (Deacon) on Jan 21, 2020 at 12:44 UTC
    From perlop qx:
    Using single-quote as a delimiter protects the command from Perl's double-quote interpolation, passing it on to the shell instead:

    perl -e "qx(explorer.exe C:\\Path\\To\\my.pdf)"

    works

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      I finally got it work the way I want by using:

      
sub ShowPDF {
  my $pdf=shift;

  my $action = {
      MSWin32 => sub { $pdf=~s/\//\\/g; qx/explorer.exe "$url"/; },
      darwin  => sub { system qq{open "$pdf" >/dev/null 2>&1 &} },
  }->{$^O}    || sub { system qq{xdg-open "$pdf" >/dev/null 2>&1 &} };

  $action->();
}

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      I just had to add the RE to make sure there is only '\' in the path (its porting from Unices).

      Using "explorer" command did the trick and solved my issue !

      Many, many , thank to you all :-))

      F.

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      Aaah! Yes, of course.
      And explorer.exe seems to be one of the few programs who don't understand forward slashes in paths :-(
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