Dear Galaxy-gurus,<br><br>How can I pass a string with spaces as a parameter from the galaxy interface to a tool that I&#39;ve written myself in perl? I&#39;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.<br>

<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>my xml looks like:<br><br>&lt;tool id=&quot;blah&quot; name=&quot;mytool&quot;&gt;<br>  &lt;command interpreter=&quot;perl&quot;&gt;<br>    /pathto/mycommand.pl -str $str<br>  &lt;/command&gt;<br>

  &lt;inputs&gt;<br>    &lt;param name=&quot;str&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; label=&quot;Put your string here&quot; /&gt;<br><br>The kind of commandline i&#39;m looking for this to generate is....<br><br>perl mycommand.pl -str &quot;this is my string&quot;<br>

</div></div><br>but currently it just gives<br><br clear="all">perl mycommand.pl -str this<br>or<br>perl mycommand.pl -str __dq__this<br>or<br>perl mycommand.pl -str X__dq__this<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>

Nick Schurch<br><br>Data Analysis Group (The Barton Group),<br>School of Life Sciences,<br>University of Dundee,<br>Dow St,<br>Dundee,<br>DD1 5EH,<br>Scotland,<br>UK<br><br>Tel: +44 1382 388707<br>Fax: +44 1382 345 893 <br>