-----Original Message-----
>From: AndrewMcHorney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Nov 7, 2007 2:15 PM
>To: beginners@perl.org
>Subject: String Creation
>
>Hello
>
>Here is the contents of the string I want to create:
>
>"dir c: \ /S" so I can get a complete list of all the files in a disk 
>partition. How can I create this string?
>

I'm just confused, can't it work when you create the string directly?

C:\Perl>bin\perl -e "$str='dir c:\ /s';system($str)"

Works pretty fine for me.

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