If you mean version information for a Windows Portable Executable format file (.exe, .dll, ...) then you may be interested in Win32::PEFile.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::PEFile;

my $filename = 'c:/windows/notepad.exe';
my $pe = Win32::PEFile->new (-file => $filename);
my $strings = $pe->getVersionStrings ();

printf "%-20s %s\n", $_, $strings->{$_} for sort keys %$strings;

my $values = $pe->getFixedVersionValues();

printf "%-20s 0x%08x\n", $_, $values->{$_} for sort keys %$values;

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Prints:

CompanyName          Microsoft Corporation
FileDescription      Notepad
FileVersion          5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2105)
InternalName         Notepad
LegalCopyright       © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
OriginalFilename     NOTEPAD.EXE
ProductName          Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
ProductVersion       5.1.2600.5512
dwFileDateLS         0x00000000
dwFileDateMS         0x00000000
dwFileFlags          0x00000000
dwFileFlagsMask      0x0000003f
dwFileOS             0x00040004
dwFileSubtype        0x00000000
dwFileType           0x00000001
dwFileVersionLS      0x0a281588
dwFileVersionMS      0x00050001
dwProductVersionLS   0x0a281588
dwProductVersionMS   0x00050001
dwSignature          0xfeef04bd
dwStrucVersion       0x00010000

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This module release is very much a case of "Publish early, publish often" (although the "often" bit has been neglected). In particular, obvious error handling (like for a bad file name or path!) is absent at present.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Get file version information in Perl by GrandFather
in thread Get file version information in Perl by salem

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