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GS has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,
I am a new perl user please be patient.
Here is my problem- Need to check the status for active interfaces on unix boxes(solaris, BSD). I am using the Net:Telnet module and getting the ouput from ifconfig -a command.
I need to parse the output to check the actine interfaces: How should I do it, read the details of the interface in an array and search for status, or any other better way of doing it. Thanks,
Here is text to parse-
------------------------------------------- em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.21.2.90 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 172.21.2.127 ether 00:07:e9:23:5a:cc media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active supported media: autoselect 1000baseTX 1000baseTX <full-duplex +> em1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:07:e9:23:5a:cd media: autoselect status: no carrier supported media: autoselect 1000baseTX 1000baseTX <full-duplex +> ti0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:60:cf:21:a3:4c media: autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>) status: active supported media: autoselect 1000baseSX <full-duplex> 1000baseS +X ti1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:60:cf:21:a3:45 media: autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>) status: active supported media: autoselect 1000baseSX <full-duplex> 1000baseS +X

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