I recently posted a question about accessing a .dll file to retreive some resource information. One of the suggestions for that was to look at Win32::Resources. I have taken a look at that module, but I am confused on how to access the data I need. Here is the sample code I have tried to use. 
use strict;
use Win32::Resources;

my $filename = "C:/path/to/file.dll";

my $data = Win32::Resources::LoadResource(
    filename => $filename,
    type => 'STRING',
    name => '1',
    language => '0'
);

print "$data\n";

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The .dll file I am trying to access has 43 resource entries that are structured like the following: 
STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
1,     "foo"
2,     "faz"
3,     "far"
4,     "bar"
5,     "baz"
6,     "boo"
7,     "abc"
8,     "def"
9,     "ghi"
10,     "jkl"
11,     "mno"
12,     "pqr"
13,     "stu"
14,     "vwx"
15,     "yz1"
}

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When I change the name field in my code between 1-43 $data has data written to it. When I go above 43 it is uninitialized. So it seems that the data I am looking for is getting written into $data. However when I print $data it seems to be just garbled data. Not the text information I was looking for. I am sure I am missing something easy, but from the module documentation i was not able to determine what it is. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-Prime

In reply to Using Win32::Resource by PrimeLord

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