I'm using Win32::EventLog to parse the event log of some servers. I've run into a really weird issue where it's not giving me all the events when I try to iterate over them! Here's a sample script:
#!perl

use strict;
use Win32::EventLog;

# open the System event log 
my $log = new Win32::EventLog("Application") 
    or die "Unable to open application log:$^En"; 

my $SupposedCount = 0;
my $ActualCount = 0;

#populate the Supposed Count
$log->GetNumber($SupposedCount);

# Now populate the ACTUAL count of events!
while ($log->Read((EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ|EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ),1
+, my $entry)) { 
    $ActualCount++;
}

print "Supposed Count: $SupposedCount\n";
print "Actual Count: $ActualCount\n";

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So in this script, I would expect $SupposedCount and $ActualCount to be identical, however, this is the script's output:
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C:\>perl events.pl
Supposed Count: 26382
Actual Count: 1261
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Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Why is it skipping so many events?

In reply to Win32::EventLog not returning all events? by syphon

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