ARGV String before Perl's Tokenization

Is there a way to obtain command line arguments exactly as they were supplied by the Script user?

Please note that flavors of *join(' ', @ARGV)* idea are not good enough. For example, for 'script.ipl A B C' I would like to have a string
' A B C', two spaces between A and B and all.

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Adam Stoller

Is there a way to obtain command line arguments exactly as they were supplied by the Script user?

Please note that flavors of *join(' ', @ARGV)* idea are not good enough. For example, for 'script.ipl A B C' I would like to have a string
' A B C', two spaces between A and B and all.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do - but I think the answer is "no" - because the shell will probably "swallow" those spaces before your program ever gets to see them.

ISCBorisB

I'm not sure what you're trying to do - but I think the answer is "no" - because the shell will probably "swallow" those spaces before your program ever gets to see them.

Thanks. I am coding *hook* calls from some legacy application with fixed number of space-delimited optional parameters.
Double space simply means that corresponding parameter is not supplied, like A,B,,D means that the third value is skipped
only with spaces instead of comma. I'll try to make it through a wrapper with the single parameter: script 'A B D'