I know the code may not be pretty

You know, copy/paste-ing from the documentation should work flawlessly :) methods are called using ->, this is important

Report puts a report in the Eventlog, it doesn't read one

Try http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-EventLog/EventLog.pm#Example_1 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );
sub Main {
    while(1){
        eval { FiddleEventLog("System") ; 1 }
          or warn "Oooops: $@";
    }
}

sub FiddleEventLog {
    my( $eventLog , $computerName ) = @_;
    $computerName ||= $ENV{ComputerName};
    my $handle=Win32::EventLog->new($eventLog, $computerName)
        or die "Can't open Application EventLog\n";
    my $recs;
    $handle->GetNumber($recs)
        or die "Can't get number of EventLog records\n";
    my $base;
    $handle->GetOldest($base)
        or die "Can't get number of oldest EventLog record\n";
    
    while ($x < $recs) {
        my $hashRef = {};
        $handle->Read(
            EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ|EVENTLOG_SEEK_READ,
            $base+$x,
            $hashRef
        )
            or die "Can't read EventLog entry #$x\n";
        if ( $hashRef->{Source} eq "EventLog" ) {
                Win32::EventLog::GetMessageText($hashRef);
                print "Entry $x: $hashRef->{Message}\n";
        }
        $x++;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Help understanding Win32::Eventlog by Anonymous Monk
in thread Help understanding Win32::Eventlog by tfredett

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