Well, if you really want to get into some Win32 Perl hacking, you can use Win32::Registry to get at some nice tidbits in the registry concerning the ip number and all. I don't remember if the Browser service dumps a list of computernames to the registry, so I'll have to double-check that. I'll cook you up a script or module in a few hours (once I finish some module rebuilding for my own project). Unfortunately, I found out one of the small quirks of Win32::Registry (which is one of the reasons why people advocate Win32::TieRegistry instead). In the module, GSar hardwires all of the registry objects into the main space (or main symbol table). So, if you do write a module you'll have to do:

my $HKLM = Win32::Registry::_new(&HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE); # _new is a pri
+vate constructor defined in the module

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You'll have to do this for every root registry object. Instead of pinging the machine, you can do a remote connection with Connect method and write the results to file. Also, if you really want to get into the registry without using Win32::Registry, you can use Win32API and load the win32.dll file, which contains all of the functions in the Win32::Registry module. The only bad thing is that you'll have to look up the registry calls in the MSDN library to know what structure to throw at win32.dll.

On another note, I should have made it clear that qx() and backticks are, in fact, the same thing. I just like to use qx(), with parens as the normal delimiters, because it's usually the easiest to read. Of course, you can do qx##, qx**, qx$$, or whatever (so long as the delimiters match... also, you might want to stay away from certain delimiters since you might confuse them with variables/typeglobs/etc.). They will do exactly the same thing. Thanks Juerd for pointing out that little error.

Theodore Charles III
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Los Angeles Senior High
4650 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
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In reply to Re: cleanest/most efficient way to do this by Necos
in thread cleanest/most efficient way to do this by RayRay459

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