Hm this doesn't work for me, am I doing something wrong? I thought it would be great as one of my co-workers needs to inventory software company wide for license compliance I am getting a syntax error in line 48 near sub GetHardwareInfo" followed by a cannot use global @_ in "my" at c:\perl\bin\mytest.pl line 49 near =@" sytax error at c:\perl\bin\mytest.pl line 109 near } execution of c:\perl\bin\mytest.pl aborted due to compiliation errors.