to clarify some things, I had used report to attempt to test to see if the code was working correctly, but it appears I did that incorrectly, and I am unsure of how to do it correctly. Also I have already done several google searchs, looked in the perldocs, and checked out cpan, and I am just not understanding what its trying to say. I understand the function calls and such, but I don't understand how it works well enough to implement them.

Update: Sorry it took me awhile to even remotely understand your code and I have several questions regarding it.

$handle appears to be a variable that is retrieving the eventlog records and then later on, is being read in your second while loop. am I incorrect in this observation?

Is there a way I could go about when reading these, looking for a specific string or integer and upon finding one of these do some action foo?

In the second while loop, you have EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ|EVENTLOG_SEEK_READ as part of your hash, wouldn't these need to be passed parameters in order to function correctly?

Again thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

In reply to Re^2: Help understanding Win32::Eventlog by tfredett
in thread Help understanding Win32::Eventlog by tfredett

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