Hi valuable Monks,


the problem:
Read a given (Windows) Registry key and store the "value" into another registry Key.
(Office 12 Upgrade to Office 16 and migrate the Templates Path)

-> Any way to accomplish this is welcome, even if it is not Perl as long as your are not offended ;-). I tried it already with a .bat file too, but that was broken cause of the "hexcode"


what i want to do:
Read this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General]

"SharedTemplates"=hex(2):47,00,3a,00,5c,00,4f,00,46,00,46,00,49,00,43,
+00,45,00,\
  32,00,30,00,30,00,37,00,5c,00,57,00,4f,00,52,00,44,00,37,00,5c,00,56
+,00,4f,\
  00,52,00,4c,00,41,00,47,00,45,00,4e,00,00,00

[download]

and directly "paste" it into the section listed below or save it into variable?

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\General]

"SharedTemplates"=hex(2):47,00,3a,00,5c,00,4f,00,46,00,46,00,49,00,43,
+00,45,00,\
  32,00,30,00,30,00,37,00,5c,00,57,00,4f,00,52,00,44,00,37,00,5c,00,56
+,00,4f,\
  00,52,00,4c,00,41,00,47,00,45,00,4e,00,5c,00,00,00

[download]

This translates to the Path G:\Office2007\... but this is different path for other users,
so i must read the key and store the same REG_EXPAND_SZ value into the ...\16.0 path.

I read the Modules examples but its not possible for me to accomplish this, and i dont understand this completely.
I only get some "subkeys" listed but i cant read or store it in the needed section.

I am at my other machine and saved the code on local drive,
so i cant provide an example of my (very bad) code right now.

Perhaps you did something similar already and maybe could provide me with your code which i may could adjust to my needs?

I tried it with StrawberryPortable which seems to include the Tie::Registry functionality.
I could only use Modules which are integrated into a portable Perl Version.


Thanks for your help

mh88

In reply to [OT] Using Module TieRegistry? for reading and pasting registrykey into another section by mh88

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