RE: Weird event log ids

[Scott Campbell]

Try “&”ing your value with 0xffff, like this:   $event_id= $EventData->{'EventID'}  & 0xffff;   This should fix your problem that you are seeing.     Scott Campbell Senior Software Developer Somix Technologies http://www.somix.com   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Foster, Ken Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:28 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Weird event log ids   I am reading Event logs from a Windows XP PC, and the ID shown in my Perl script is very different than the ID listed by Microsoft or shown in their GUI tool. For example, when I look for event ID 1704, my perl script reports the ID as 1073743528; similarly,  event ID 1054 is reported by Perl as -1073740770.  Any ideas on why this is happening or how I can map the Perl numbers back to the original Microsoft ID?   Thanks.   -Ken Foster