Dear All
I need a little help please,
I have just started on writing a script that interrogates the SAM database from the Registry. I started with the following code and got this error message.


"my" variable $main::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE can't be in a package at
C:\Perl\reg.pl line 9,
near "my $main::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
Execution of C:\Perl\reg.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

I cannot progress any further unless this first step is working.Your help is highly appreciated
use strict VAR;
use warnings 'all';
use Win32API::Registry;
use Win32API::Net;
use Win32::TieRegistry;
use Win32;
my $CurrVer;
my $p = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion";
my $main::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Open($p, $CurrVer) || die "OPEN $!\n";

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