Spaces in the input argument in perl

[ranjeeth]

perl passing single input argument

I have written a small code in Perl to search for a given string in text files in a given directory. I take the directory name and string as input arguments to the perl program. Perl takes the space as the seperator for the argument, this does not allow for spaces in the directory name/ text string.
Is there a way by which a single input argument can have a space?

 

[ranjeeth]

perl input argument

Is there a way to have spaces in ARGV[0], ARGV[1] etc in Perl ?
eg if I type perl -w search.pl a1 a2, then the arguments are seperated by space, I have an argument which has a space, How do I deal with it?

Still waiting for an answer ...

Thanks in advance

 

[umairsiddiqui]

perl input a directory name with spaces

windows:
inclose the args with spaces with "" (double quotes), example

program "arg 0" "arg 1"

unix:
inclose the args with spaces with '' (single quotes), example

> program 'arg 0' 'arg 1'