Hello community,
I am running a test which prints the following output:
Consider the following output format: 
     -date-
     -version-
     -more-info-can-be-more-than-one-line-
------------------------------------------------------------------
status       id            -more-parameters-                name
------------------------------------------------------------------
...         ....                ...                        ....
------------------------------------------------------------------

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Notice that its kind of a table with information.An example for this table: 
       date:17/4/2000
       version: 4.1.0
       -more info-
       -more info-
------------------------------------------------------------------
Status      id          not important info (two columns)       name
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Run        1234 @           ...                                foo1
Wait       54123 @          ...                                foo2
-----------------------------------------------------------------

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I would like to write the two following functions which get 'id' number as argument:
1. If I have the current id "1220" argument, I would like to get an array of (id,status,name) of the line with the next minimal id (or just scalars, doesn't matter). In the above example, it would be (1234,Run,foo1) because there is no smaller number than 1234 and larger than 1220. If it doesn't have lines at all, it will be undefined.
2. (first way is more important to me) I would like to get a hash so the keys are id and the values are their status. maybe in this way it will be easier to get the first thing.

What I thought to do - I tried to combine regex and loops to iterate over the output and get the information I need, although I failed. I think regex are the key to solve this problem.
Looking for the cleanest way possible.
Hope that my question is clear (if not, I would glad to specify more).

In reply to Parsing output with a special format by ovedpo15

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