I haven't used Win32::EventLog, but from your description, I think what is needed is the "bit bucket". On Windows there is a special reserved file name, "nul". This file is special. Anything written to the file called "nul" is discarded - it just goes away.

The name nul, will not appear in any directory listing as this file cannot exist. You can however open a filehandle to nul to "create it", write to it and close it. It will all look like a normal file operation except at the end of the day, a file called nul is never actually created. On Windows, case doesn't matter, NUL and nul are the same. The path doesn't matter. You can write to nul in any directory.

C:\Projects>type temp.txt       #types temp.txt to stdout
C:\Projects>type temp.txt >nul  #no output! types temp.text into cyber
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There are all sorts of handy uses for nul. Another example: 
C:\someprog.pl 2>nul

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exectues someprog.pl and the normal stdout output is thrown away. But anything written to stderr, like a warning or whatever will appear on the terminal.

In Unix, this concept is implemented via the device called null. /dev/null. Please note the spelling, and the number of letter l's! That is of course important!

In reply to Re: Win32::EventLog's clear method without filename. by Marshall
in thread Win32::EventLog's clear method without filename. by dannyd

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