bash: passing paths with spaces as parameters?

Question

I have a bash script that recieves a set of files from the user. These files are sometimes under directories with spaces in their names. Unfortunately unlike this question all t

Answer 1

"$var"

For example,

$ var='foo bar'

$ perl -E'say "<<$_>>" for @ARGV' $var
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$ perl -E'say "<<$_>>" for @ARGV' "$var"
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