Help me, O wise ones...

I've got a Perl script--converted from one in VBasic, that reads the registry and places its result into a variable passed in as an argument. The function's return is just 0 for success, anything else for failure. Is there *any* way to get my perlish paws on the result? Here's the code: 

#!perl
# The following example reads and displays the value in the DWORD regi
+stry value
# HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\Aut
+oReboot. 

use Win32::OLE;
use constant HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE => 0x80000002;

my $dwValue = 42;
$strComputer = '.';
$oReg = Win32::OLE->GetObject('winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonat
+e}!\\\\' .
                              $strComputer .
                              '\\root\\default:StdRegProv');
$strKeyPath = 'SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\CrashControl';
$strValueName = 'AutoReboot';

$oReg->GetDWORDValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, $strKeyPath, $strValueName, $
+dwValue);

print 'AutoReboot' . ' == ' . $dwValue, "\n";

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The output, as might be expected, is:

"AutoReboot == 42"

The vbs script, of course, works just fine, setting $dwValue to 1 (the current value on my PC). Thanks for any insight--especially one that shows the way...

Dismas

In reply to Value Sought from Subroutine Argument? by Dismas

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