use Win32 ; my $REGISTER; use Win32::TieRegistry (Delimiter=>"/", ArrayValues=>1, TiedRef=>\$REGISTER) ; sub get_filetype_cmd { my ( $type ) = @_ ; my $app = $REGISTER->{"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.$type//" }; my $cmd = $REGISTER->{"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/$$app[0]/shell/open/command//" }; $cmd = $$cmd[0] ; $cmd =~ s/"(.*?)".*/$1/s ; $cmd =~ s/(\.exe|\.bat|\.com).*/$1/si ; return( $cmd ) ; } 1;