What I'm trying to do is this:

#!c:\Perl\bin\perl

use SNMP;

 my $s = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => 'localhost', Community => 'publ
+ic', Version => '2');

 # gets an snmp table and returns a hashref in $j
 my $j = $s->gettable('hrSWInstalledTable');
 
 
 
 # This statement returns the number of keys in the hashref. 
 $numOfKeys = scalar keys %$j;

# print out all of the values in the table
 for($key = 1; $key <= $numOfKeys; $key++) {
     print "Key = $key - 'hrSWInstalledIndex' = $$j{$key}{'hrSWInstall
+edIndex'}\n";
     print "Key = $key - 'hrSWInstalledName'  = $$j{$key}{'hrSWInstall
+edName'}\n";
     print "Key = $key - 'hrSWInstalledID'    = $$j{$key}{'hrSWInstall
+edID'}\n";
     print "Key = $key - 'hrSWInstalledType'  = $$j{$key}{'hrSWInstall
+edType'}\n";
     print "Key = $key - 'hrSWInstalledDate'  = $$j{$key}{'hrSWInstall
+edDate'}\n";     
 }
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However, the hrSWInstalledDate doesn't print correctly as you can see in the output below.

C:\perlprograms>perl snmp_test.pl
Key = 1 - 'hrSWInstalledIndex' = 1
Key = 1 - 'hrSWInstalledName' = Emaga4 Game Resources 1.0
Key = 1 - 'hrSWInstalledID' = zeroDotZero
Key = 1 - 'hrSWInstalledType' = 4
Key = 1 - 'hrSWInstalledDate' = ╓ ►"
Key = 2 - 'hrSWInstalledIndex' = 2
Key = 2 - 'hrSWInstalledName' = 3DGPAi1 Game Resources 1.0
Key = 2 - 'hrSWInstalledID' = zeroDotZero
Key = 2 - 'hrSWInstalledType' = 4
Key = 2 - 'hrSWInstalledDate' = ╓ ♥↕+*

I need some way to convert the value returned for hrSWInstalledDate to a human readable and printable format. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
perlchild

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