Well... Thanks for providing detailed workarounds. But that's exactly my point: the same system() call cannot apparently be used on both platforms, win and unix.
And that's my problem. I have a piece of perl code which needs to execute an external program, and I want/need to make it portable across both platforms. It is not really satisfactory for me, when I have to introduce additional 30 lines of code for the windows part, just to catch all the possible quirks that can happen to me because of quotes or other special characters that might be contained in the arguments to my external program.
I had the hope, that the system() call in the argument array form, would do what the documentation says: pass the arguments _diretcly_ to the executable. But thanks to the discussion in this thread, I understand now that it's simply not possible on Windows. And I have to live with that (and obviously implement one or another workaround for this).
Thanks again.
