#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Win32API::Registry 0.21 qw( :ALL ); my $key; my $i = 0; while (RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "HARDWARE\\DESCRIPTION\\System\\CentralProcessor\\$i", 0, KEY_READ, $key)) { $i++; RegCloseKey($key); } print "$i\n";