If you are trying to determine what hotfixes are installed on a Windows PC, using srvinfo or psinfo is perhaps not the best way to go.

Microsoft's MBSA is an excellent (free) patch scanning tool - it can also output an XML report (you can run it from the command line as well as GUI) so if you want you can parse the output and do some post-processing with Perl with XML::Parser say.

I suppose I should weigh in with an off-topic non-Perl answer (as is my way) by saying that if this is for a Corporate environment you should probably take a look at WSUS and/or SMS for Windows patch management.

In reply to Re: Creating multiple files from txt data by puploki
in thread Creating multiple files from txt data by Sunnmann

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