perldb does not process arguments with embedded spaces

["Yuri Shtil" <shtil@attbi.com>]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2001-12-25 on C938451-A
configured using `configure --with-gcc (2.95)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

From what I understand perldb must process the command line arguments passed to the script being debugged in a shell-like manner. I found this not to be the case. I was trying to pass an argument with embedded white space by quoting ior escaping it. Nothing seems to work.

If you try M-x perldb RET
and supply "a b" as an argument, then the @ARGV contains two elements: "a and b" .

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Sincerely

          Yuri Shtil

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