#!usr/bin/perl use Win32::API; my $filename="C:/Program Files/America Online 9.0g/aol.exe"; my $apiobject = new Win32::API("C:/Documents and Settings/Mdaviesie/Desktop/dver_1.3/fileversion.dll", "GetFileVersionTxt", 'PP','I') or die "Failed to acquire API: $^E"; #Set some memory aside for the returned value my $string="\x00" x 1024; #Call the function in the dll $apiobject->Call($filename,$string); #Remove the unused padding in the string my $final = ($string =~/(.*?)\x00/); print "\$final - $final"; #### INT GetFileVersionTxt(STRING sFile, out STRING sVersion)