perl sorting shell output

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

Is there a perl module that automatically parse shell output and sort the lines in a human readable manner? I capture the output into a file, but it looks like

[1;24r[14;17r[14;1HM[1;24r[4;58H8.93kb  3.6      275[6;50H 985k
+[61G3kb   10      19[7d59[8;52H91kB   253kb  60.3      155[10;52
+H43kB  23.6kb  14.4[77G9[11;52H37kB  47.0kb  10.2kb   127
[12d71.11.11.18[12;23H<=> 111.121.121.121[12;51H619kB  1.13Mb   495
+kb   124kb[13;68H 0
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On the screen I have the lines looking like

69.11.11.11                                                           
+             <=> 222.11.12.13                                        
+                                  31.1kB  23.5kb  31.1kb  31.1kb
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This is coming from iftop command.

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Re: perl sorting shell output by hdb (Monsignor) on Apr 23, 2013 at 07:26 UTC
`iftop` is a command that continuously updates its display and as such not well suited to be read from a script. There might be a command line switch to generate a one-off display??	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perl sorting shell output by mrc (Sexton) on Apr 23, 2013 at 07:46 UTC
I'm able to capture the output, because after some time I kill the pid.	[reply]
Re^3: perl sorting shell output by hdb (Monsignor) on Apr 23, 2013 at 08:36 UTC
`iftop` has a `-b` switch that suppresses the bars showing network load. Have you tried that? I have no *nix box at hand and cannot try myself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]