This is an update on my progress. Having found no solution to my plight, I emailed one of the authors, Bret Giddings. Bret responded as follows:

Try

$event->{EventID} &= 0x0000ffff;

That should bring the number into the range the MS expect. I don't know why the API returns the wrong number. Microsoft seem to correct for it in the eventviewer - I guess if I ever do any more work on the EventLog module, I should too.

This modification resolved about 95% of the weirdness. There are still some anomalies, but the script is now much more useable.

If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.

In reply to (shockme) Re: Weird Win32::EventLog Results by shockme
in thread Weird Win32::EventLog Results by shockme

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