Dear Galaxy-gurus, How can I pass a string with spaces as a parameter from the galaxy interface to a tool that I've written myself in perl? I've tried enclosing the string with quotes (single and double) and various escape characters and all they do is add __dq/sq/X__ to the start of the string and then ignore everything else after the space. my xml looks like: <tool id="blah" name="mytool"> <command interpreter="perl"> /pathto/mycommand.pl -str $str </command> <inputs> <param name="str" type="text" label="Put your string here" /> The kind of commandline i'm looking for this to generate is.... perl mycommand.pl -str "this is my string" but currently it just gives perl mycommand.pl -str this or perl mycommand.pl -str __dq__this or perl mycommand.pl -str X__dq__this Thanks! -- Cheers, Nick Schurch Data Analysis Group (The Barton Group), School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow St, Dundee, DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1382 388707 Fax: +44 1382 345 893