Thanks for the explanation, Roger. I'm afraid that being a complete noob when it comes to Perl, I can find it quite difficult to visualise what is going on within a hash, particularly if elements are being referenced by other variables.

I can see that my %Result is fairly much only storing {$account} and {%attrib}. And I understand the idea that you need another level (for {%machine}?) in the %Result to store what went on before. But to be frank, thinking in more than 2 hash levels is beyond me at present (some things I can visualise by RFTM, others need to be explained - I'm not a programmer).

Would it be possible for you (or someone else) to give me a snippet of code to show what you mean? Apologies for the "obviousness" of the question... :-(

Also, any links to simple discussions of hashes etc would be helpful - my books are good, but coming at it from a different perspective sometimes helps.

In reply to Re: Re: Problem with ascertaining last NT logon - Roth script by billie_t
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