Greetings, I'm trying to parse out the following statement and convert it to an html table 
Disk quotas for testuser (uid 65530):
Filesystem     usage  quota  limit    timeleft  files  quota  limit   
+ timeleft
/var/mail       1394  15360  16384                  0      0      0   
+         
/home
              255999 307200 308224                 34      0      0

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My first thought was $quota_string =~ s/\s+/ /g; $quota_string =~ s/:/:\n/; and then try to match the whitespace /words and put a new line in front of it $quota_string =~ s/\s{1}\/$1\n/g; and then convert all the \n to <tr> and all the spaces to <td> I haven't entirely worked all the bugs out of this idea yet, because the mildly complicated regex doesn't work....

And then there is also the problem of, when converting all the whitespaces to one space the files field shifts over to the timeleft field... anyone have any thoughts on how to insert perhaps a "-" if there is nothing there?

I was considering something as hidous as this to help but....

my $ugly_regex = '!
              /         # match /
              \w*?      # match optional minimum word characters (/dir
+)
              /?        # match single optional /
              \w*?      # match optional minimum word characters (/dir
+/dir)
              /?        # match single optional /
              \w*?      # match optional minimum word characters (/dir
+/dir/dir)
              /?        # match single optional /
              \w*?      # match optional minimum word characters (/dir
+/dir/dir/dir)
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d+?      # match 1 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d*?      # match 0 or more numbers
              \s?       # match a single optional whitespace
              \d*?      # match 0 or more numbers
             !x';

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that is ugly as sin and........ yeah....doesn't work...
Anyone got any thoughts in that direction? I would use Quota, except this is over a remote connection and I cannot always be sure that module has been installed.

Update: By remote I mean through an telnet/ssh session emulated by either Net::Telnet or Net::SSH::Perl


jcpunk
all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

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