On Sep 27, Ryan Frantz said:

# list the processes to hunt for
my @findProcesses = (
 "putty",
 "firefox",
);

foreach my $process (in
$serverObj->InstancesOf("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")) {
 foreach my $matchProcess ( @findProcesses ) {
   if ( $process->{Name} =~ /$matchProcess/oi ) {

You're using the /o modifier here, and that's causing your problem. I'm guessing you don't actually know what the /o modifier does. It tells Perl the regex won't change after it's been compiled the first time. Remove the /o modifier and I believe your code will run fine.

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