Try this if you need to use regexp ;-) Following code will create two-dimensional array from your data. Header is skipped and line with dashes (delimiter between header and data) is used for regexp pattern creation.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my @data;
my $data = 0;
my $line;
my @size;
my $re;
while ($line = <DATA>) {
chomp $line; # remove EOL
next if ($line =~ /^\s*$/); # skip empty lines if any
if ($data) { # process data using regexp
push @data, [ map { s/(^\s+|\s+$)//; $_ } ($line =~ /$
+re/) ];
} elsif ($line =~ /^-/) { # create regexp from pattern
$data = 1; # end of header
@size = map { length } split(/\s+/, $line);
pop @size;
$re = '^' . join(' ', map { "(.{$_})" } @size) . '
+ (.*)';
}
}
print Data::Dumper::Dumper(\@data);
__DATA__
Port Alias Oper Admin Speed Duplex Type
(truncated) Status Status (bps)
------------ ---------------- -------- ------- ------ ------- --------
+----------
vlan.0.4094 up up other
host.0.1 up up 10.0M other
ge.1.1 down up 10.0M half 10-t
+ rj45
ge.1.2 down up 10.0M half 10-t
+ rj45
ge.1.3 down up 10.0M half 10-t
+ rj45
ge.1.4 down up 10.0M half 10-t
+ rj45
ge.1.5 down up 10.0M half 10-t
+ rj45