Re^2: how are ARGV and filename strings represented? This 'advice' is so bad. Someone had to say it....
Re^2: how are ARGV and filename strings represented? That depends on the shell. If that shell happens to be CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM (I *think* also Powershell.exe and pwsh.exe), the asterisks you type in arguments have to be handled by Perl, because DOS/...