Re: Removing keys in the registry (code)

[tye]

This isn't particularly hard to solve. I typed into the Chatterbox a subroutine that does it when you asked about it there. I guess you ran off before waiting for a reply. It can be as simple as:

sub deleteReg {
    my( $key, $name )= @_;
    for(  eval { keys %{$key->{$name}} }  ) {
        deleteReg( $key, "$name\\$_" );
    }
    delete $key->{$name};
}

deleteReg(
    $Registry,
    "HKEY_LO­CAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE­/MyWay/",
);

Here is a more robust and efficient version (though I'm sure some will consider the above use of eval to be more robust and I agree, but I wanted to show an alternative to that):

*isa= \&UNIVERSAL::isa;

sub deleteReg {
    my $key= shift @_;  # Registry key to delete item from
    my $name= shift @_; # Name of item to delete
    {
        my $item= $key->{$name};
        if(  ! $item  ) {
            warn "Can't read $name in ",
                $key->Path(), ": $^E\n";
            return;
        }
        if(  ref($item)  &&  isa($item,"HASH")  ) {
            for my $subName (  keys %$item  ) {
                deleteReg( $item, $subName );
            }
        }
    }
    delete $key->{$name}
        or  warn "Can't delete $name from ",
                $key->Path(), ": $^E\n";
}

deleteReg(
    $Registry,
    "HKEY_LO­CAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE­/MyWay/",
);

Another way to do it doesn't bother with values:

sub regDelTree {
    my $rootKey= shift @_; # Reg key to del subtree from
    my $keyName= shift @_; # Name of key to delete
    {
        my $key= $rootKey->{$keyName};
        if(  ! $key  ) {
            warn "Can't open $keyName in ",
                $rootKey->Path(), ": $^E\n";
            return;
        }
        for(  $key->SubKeyNames()  ) {
            regDelTree( $key, "$_\\" );
        }
    }
    delete $rootKey->{$keyName}
        or  warn "Can't delete $keyName from ",
                $rootKey->Path(), ": $^E\n";
}

regDelTree(
    $Registry,
    "HKEY_LO­CAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE­/MyWay/",
);

The main reason that one of these isn't just included in the module is that dealing with errors in a general way in nested code like this is a pain to do well. The above code just punts and uses warn which is reasonable but often isn't what a user of a module would want. I've wanted to add something like this to the module and I will in a future release.

Code untested at this point. Yes, you might have to do a little work yet. (: