Hi ,

This is what the end result to your code: Unless I pasted it wrong.

I still get that dang error ( but looks a little different)

Checking 10.0.0.0/8
Checking 146.149.0.0/16
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
146.149.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :146.149.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 161.16.0.0/16
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
161.16.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :161.16.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 161.56.0.0/16

#!perl -w
my %counts;
my @subnettype;
my @dnsoptions;
my @dnsoptions2;
my @subnetpart2;
my $snetpart2;
my $subnet;
open(my $log, ">log-external-.txt") or die "Could not open log: $!\n";
printf $log "Subnet,Static,DHCP,Unused\n";
##### Step 1, read subnets
open(my $in, "<m-names.txt") or die "Could not open m-names2.txt: $!\n";
while(<$in>) {
#next unless /(.*?)\/(.*)$/;
#next unless /(.*?)$/;
chomp;
  $subnet = $_;
  print "Checking $subnet\n";
  @dnsoptions = `./getobjectlst.exe -u xx -p xx -a $subnet -o Rich`;
  # Now, at this point, we may have "Error 48" in @dnsoptions, or we may have
  # the nicely formatted output. We'll have to check for both cases here.
  # Let's check the unsuccessful case first. The condition below checks if
  # the first element of @dnsoptions array has the following text in it -
  # "Error 48: This subnet does not exist." in it.

if (not defined($dnsoptions[0])) {
    print "dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet\n";
    next;
  
  if (join(" ",@dnsoptions) =~ /Error 48: This subnet does not exist./) {

    # call "getsubnetlst.exe", passing $subnet as one of the parameters
    @subnetpart2 = `./getsubnetlst.exe -u xx-p xx -a $subnet -t network -o Rich`;
    # now loop through each element of the array @subnetpart2, which looks like this - 
    # ##########################################################################
    # "East" "146.149.1.0" "N" "" "146.149.0.0" " " " " "255.255.255.128"
    # ##########################################################################
    # pick up the 2nd field from the left (e.g. 146.149.1.0 above), and pass it as
    # a parameter to the cli "getobjectlst.exe".


    foreach my $line (@subnetpart2) {
      # get the 2nd field from the left
      $snetpart2 = (split/"\s+"/, $line)[1];
      # and now pass it to "getobjectlst.exe"; assign the output to
      # the array @dnsoptions2
      @dnsoptions2 = `./getobjectlst.exe -u xx -p xx -a $snetpart2 -o Rich`;
      # find out counts of each subnettype (4th field from left)
    foreach my $line (@dnsoptions2) {
        @subnettype = split/"\s+"/, $line;
        $counts{$subnettype[3]}++;
      }
    }
  } else # successful output from getobjectlst.exe
  {
    # find out counts of each subnettype (4th field from left)
    foreach my $line (@dnsoptions) {
      @subnettype = split/"\s+"/, $line;
      $counts{$subnettype[3]}++;
    }
  }
  printf $log "%s,%d,%d,%d\n", $subnet, ($counts{Static} or 0), ($counts{DHCP} or 0), ($counts{Unused} or 0);
  %counts = ();
}
}
close($in);
close($log);

What's the output of the following program ?

#!perl -w
my @dnsoptions;
my $subnet;
open(my $in, "<m-names2.txt") or die "Could not open m-names2.txt: $!\n";
while(<$in>) {
  next unless /(.*?)\/(.*)$/;
  $subnet = $1;
  print "Checking $subnet\n";
  @dnsoptions = `./getobjectlst.exe -u Xxx-p Xxx -a $subnet -o rich`;
  if (@dnsoptions) { # @dnsoptions is not empty
    if (join(" ",@dnsoptions) =~ /Error 48: This subnet does not exist./) {
      print "dnsoptions contains the Error 48.\n";
    } else {
      print "dnsoptions was created successfully, it's size = $#dnsoptions\n";
    }
  } else {
    print "dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet\n";
  }
}
close($in);

HI, here ya go

$ perl tyler.pl
Checking 10.0.0.0
dnsoptions was created successfully, it's size = 253
Checking 146.149.0.0
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
146.149.0.0
getobjectlst.exe :146.149.0.0: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 161.16.0.0
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
161.16.0.0
getobjectlst.exe :161.16.0.0: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 161.56.0.0
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
161.56.0.0
getobjectlst.exe :161.56.0.0: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 162.2.0.0
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
Checking 162.5.0.0

HI,

This maybe a clue..

we need to retain the mask bit "/16" or what ever is set on the m-names.txt file when it calls getsubnetlst.exe

This is the code ran manually
./getsubnetlst.exe -u xx -p xx -a 146.149.0.0/16 -t network -o Rich

"East" "146.149.89.0" "Y" "" "146.149.0.0" " " " " "255.255.255.224"
"West" "146.149.89.64" "Y" "" "146.149.0.0" " " " " "255.255.255.224"
"" "146.149.90.0" "Y" "" "146.149.0.0" " " " " "255.255.255.0"
"" "146.149.91.0" "N" "" "146.149.0.0" " " " " "255.255.255.0"

The following code uses the entire line from "m-names2.txt" i.e. "167.0.0.0/8" instead of just "167.0.0.0".

#!perl -w
my @dnsoptions;
my $subnet;
open(my $in, "<m-names2.txt") or die "Could not open m-names2.txt: $!\n";
while(<$in>) {
  $subnet = $_;
  print "Checking $subnet\n";
  @dnsoptions = `./getobjectlst.exe -u Xxx-p Xxx -a $subnet -o rich`;
  if (@dnsoptions) { # @dnsoptions is not empty
    if (join(" ",@dnsoptions) =~ /Error 48: This subnet does not exist./) {
      print "dnsoptions contains the Error 48.\n";
    } else {
      print "dnsoptions was created successfully, it's size = $#dnsoptions\n";
    }
  } else {
    print "dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet\n";
  }
  print "====================================\n";
}
close($in);

Checking 146.149.0.0
Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
146.149.0.0
getobjectlst.exe :146.149.0.0: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet

OK, I follow you, so what do you recommend?

I ran your latest test code, this is what I got:

$ perl tyler1.pl
Checking 10.0.0.0/8

dnsoptions was created successfully, it's size = 253
====================================
Checking 146.149.0.0/16

Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
146.149.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :146.149.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
====================================
Checking 161.16.0.0/16

Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
161.16.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :161.16.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
====================================
Checking 161.56.0.0/16

Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
161.56.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :161.56.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
====================================
Checking 162.2.0.0/16

Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
162.2.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :162.2.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
====================================
Checking 162.5.0.0/16

dnsoptions was created successfully, it's size = 1021
====================================
Checking 162.15.0.0/16

Error 48: This subnet does not exist.
162.15.0.0/16
getobjectlst.exe :162.15.0.0/16: Error code = 48
dnsoptions is null or undefined, going on to the next subnet
====================================
Checking 162.30.0.0/16