I am converting some VB scripts to perl and I am having a problem referencing instances of an object that are returned in a method. The first code below is the VB code and the second is the perl code.

The problem is the value in $NGList is the number of instances returned not a list of the object instances like I thought it would be. The in the foreach loop the value of 4 (the number of instances returned) is assigned to $fNode. The assignment of $objNodes in the ExecQuery works fine and the line  print "$fNode->{PrimaryNodeName}\n"; works fine. Any suggestions?

VB Script

Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")  
Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strMLM,"\root\hewlet
+tpackard\openview\data")
Set objNodes = objWMIService.ExecQuery("select * from OV_ManagedNode w
+here PrimaryNodeName like '" & strND & "%'")
for each nm in objNodes
    Wscript.Echo "Primary Node name is " & nm.PrimaryNodeName '& vbNew
+Line
    Name = nm.name
    nm.GetParents(NGarray)
    For Each gp in NGarray
        Wscript.Echo gp.Caption  
    Next 
next
Wscript.Quit 0

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Perl Script

$objSWbemLocator = Win32::OLE->new("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
$objWMIService = $objSWbemLocator->ConnectServer($strMLM,"\\root\\hewl
+ettpackard\\openview\\data");
$objNodes = $objWMIService->ExecQuery("Select * from OV_ManagedNode wh
+ere PrimaryNodeName like \"%$argNode%\"");
foreach $fNode (in $objNodes) 
{
    print "$fNode->{PrimaryNodeName}\n";
    $NGList = $fNode->GetParents() or die;
    foreach $fNode ($NGList) 
    {
        print "***************\n";
        my $fName = $fNode->{Name};
        my $fCaption = $fNode->{Caption};
        print "$fName:$fCaption \n";      #GUID of the group
        @polGrps = $fNode->GetAutoDeployPolicyGroups;
    }
}

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In reply to Problem with win32 objects by ScooterTrash

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