Dear monks, I'm looking for a way to export windows registry. I know about Win32::TieRegistry module which works fine but this not what I want. I want to export a key with all subkeys using the same format the as native regedit.exe tool. This format is a bit specific, something like text but "enhanced" registry types like REG_MULTI_SZ are exported as hex string: 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wwe]
"binary"=hex:00,11
"dword"=dword:00000010
"multi-sz"=hex(7):66,00,69,00,72,00,73,00,74,00,20,00,6c,00,69,00,6e,0
+0,65,00,\
  00,00,73,00,65,00,63,00,6f,00,6e,00,64,00,20,00,6c,00,69,00,6e,00,65
+,00,00,\
  00,74,00,68,00,69,00,72,00,64,00,20,00,6c,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,00,00
+,00,00
"reg-sz"="string"
"expand-sz"=hex(2):25,00,70,00,61,00,74,00,68,00,25,00,00,00

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It's easy to get following output using Win32::tieRegistry: 
"binary"=3:<one or two non-ASCII character displayed here>
"dword"=4:0x00000010
"multi-sz"=7:first<null delimiter here>line-second line<null delimiter
+ here>third line<null delimiter here><null delimiter here>
"reg-sz"=1:string
"expand-sz"=2:%path%

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if I use this code: 
use Modern::Perl;

use Win32::TieRegistry ( Delimiter=>'/', SplitMultis=>0, FixSzNulls =>
+1, ArrayValues => 0,
qw( REG_SZ REG_EXPAND_SZ REG_DWORD REG_BINARY REG_MULTI_SZ
    KEY_READ KEY_WRITE KEY_ALL_ACCESS ), );

my $reg_obj = $Registry->Open("LMachine/Software/wwe", { Access=>'KEY_
+READ' } )
  or die "Error: $^E\n";
  
foreach my $value ($reg_obj->ValueNames()) {
    my ($valuedata, $valuetype) = $reg_obj->GetValue( $value );
    my %valuetypes = (
    );
    say qq{"$value"=$valuetype:$valuedata};
}

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I'm looking for a long time for a module or a ready script wich exports the registry in the same format but I didn't found anything until now.

Is there a way to get the "regedit" output without doing manual pack/unpack? I don't want to do it as I'm not really familiar with pack. I know about the possibility to call regedit.exe with an /E parameter (or reg.exe) but this not enough I want to process remote machines too. It would be OK if the solution is limited to Windows plattform, I don't think there is some crasy user who want to start it somewhere else :-) I'm also open to any other ideas. Thank you in advance.

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