This page focuses on parsing a flat string THE WAY THAT BASH PARSES IT. It does not focus on parsing the @ARGV further — for that, see command_line.html.

encoding @ARGV ⇒ flat string

• my $flatstring = join(" ", map {Data::Dumper::_quote($_)} @ARGV;
• Text::ParseWords (in core since v5.000)

decoding flat string ⇒ @ARGV

• Shell::Parser
• Text::ParseWords (in core since v5.000)