Essentially, it's as easy as replacing the open(...) with open_bom(LOG, $sqlErrorlog), the only 'challenge' being that you need to modify your error handling slightly (as open_bom() will croak in case of an error). But something like this should do the trick: 

use File::BOM 'open_bom';

# ...

eval { open_bom(LOG, $sqlErrorlog) };
if ($@) {
    $ref->{log_open_error} = "***Error: $@";

    # don't know what Win32::GetLastError would do here
    # just try it, if you really need it...
    # $ref->{log_open_error} .= Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastErr
+or);

    return $ref;
}

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File::BOM depends on Readonly, so you want to install that module too (unless you already have it). As both modules are pure Perl, there shouldn't be any problems getting them installed.

Cheers,
Almut

In reply to Re^7: How to open SQL 2005 errorlog? by almut
in thread How to open SQL 2005 errorlog? by jc7

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