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I'm trying to read windows EventLog:

$evHandle->Read(EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ|EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ,0,$hr)
||die;
use Data::Dumper;say Dumper($hr);

Win32::EventLog::GetMessageText($hr);# Try to decode the 
# message text?

print "Computer:".$hr->{Computer}." Source:".$hr->{Source}";
print " TS:".scalar(gmtime($hr->{TimeGenerated}));
print " Category:".$hr->{Category};
print " EventType:".$hr->{EventType}." TXT:".$hr->{Message};
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and for some messages this works fine, but some come up empty: "System Computer:LUBSS056 Source:Server Agents TS:Thu Apr 10 14:00:44 2008 Category:1 EventType:4 TXT:."

As far as I know, this might happen if I'm reading the EventLog remotely, and I don't have access to EventLog decoding dlls on my machine, but since I'm reading locally, I believe this shouldn't happen.

In reply to Win32::EventLog: how to convert EventLog hash to text by Eyck

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