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Start does not like spaces in the dir names (even if you quote them). Here is one way - 


use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;

my @args = ("start/d", "c:/program files/T.txt");

my $file = pop(@args);
push (@args, '"'. dirname($file) . '"', basename($file));

system(@args) == 0 or die $@;

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(This will not work for filenames with spaces, not sure if start can handle it anyways).

-SK

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Re^2: Opening a text file in its native application
by FM (Acolyte) on Jan 16, 2006 at 07:03 UTC

    Hi SK,

    This is wonderful! It works!

    Thank you so much!

    Claire

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