Got it to work ! Thanks for sharing. The test with the $vmname and $namevm was also false, because the text file has some trailing garbage (even if it’s truncated in Notepad). I added a trim funtion to the script and now I am checking against the trimmed variables and it started to work.

Thanks again !

BR,

Ronald

Sorry for my previous post, solved that already. Plz delete =)
However, the test if ($nameVM eq $vmname) is always false. I printed out both to screen, they look exactly the same. Still, it does not step into the statement. Any idea what can be wrong ?

BR,

Exactly the way to go. Unfort, I get a lot of errors and I am not used to Perl.
This is what I get :
Bareword found where operator expected at C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl
Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 40, near “print “Tools”
(Might be a runaway multi-line “” string starting on line 27)
(Do you need to predeclare print?)
Global symbol “$vm_views” requires explicit package name at C:\Program Files\VMw
are\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 27.
Global symbol “$vm_views” requires explicit package name at C:\Program Files\VMw
are\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 27.
Global symbol “$nameVM” requires explicit package name at C:\Program Files\VMwar
e\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 27.
Global symbol “$nameVM” requires explicit package name at C:\Program Files\VMwar
e\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 27.
syntax error at C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradet
ools.pl line 40, near “print “Tools Upgrade ”
Can’t find string terminator ‘”‘ anywhere before EOF at C:\Program Files\VMware\
VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\bin\upgradetools.pl line 40.

Can you shine a light ?

Thanks ! Plz use my email mentioned.