Question

The following code works only on mac, but not on windows7.

perl -e "print @ARGV" aaa^bbb

On Mac (perl 5.10, darwin) it prints out as expected: aaa^bbb

On Windows 7,32bit (ActivePerl 5.12) it prints out: aaabbb

The “^” character is thrown out of @ARGV.
This character is part of a filename that I’m using the script with, so I need to be able to read it from @ARGV.

I tried using “aaa\^bbb” but it just prints out “aaa\bbb”.

Answer 1

It doesn’t work on Strawberry Perl, either. However, you can get around this by passing the argument into quotes:

perl -e "print @ARGV" "aaa^bbb"

Using Strawberry Perl on Windows 7, the output is

aaa^bbb