Greetings Monks,

I'm a bit of a klutz with regular expressions, but I've taken a shot at making this script which parses log entries for a Pure Ftpd server I run. I'm looking for ways to improve it's efficiency and readability. The log entries are separated by carraige returns and the elements by single spaces. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $data = 
'Jul 30 19:39:06 server pure-ftpd: (user@68.158.32.189) 
[NOTICE] /home/shows//Genesis/Genesis 1978-06-24 
FLAC/genesis1978-06-24-prefm-d1t04.flac downloaded  
(71074015 bytes, 60.83KB/sec)
Jul 30 19:39:23 server pure-ftpd: (user@68.17.66.125) 
[NOTICE] /home/shows//Simon and Garfunkel/Simon and 
Garfunkel 2003-10-16/SG2003-10-16-d2t03.shn downloaded  
(2075533 bytes, 115.25KB/sec)';

my @lines = split "\n", $data;

foreach my $line (@lines) {
  $line =~ m/^(\w+)\s(\d+)\s(\S+)\s\w+\s\D+\s\D(\w+)
              \x40(\d+\W\d+\W\d+\W\d+)\D\s\S+\s(.*)
              \s+\w+\s+\S?(\d+)\s\w+\S\s(\d+\W\d+)/;

  print "Month is: $1\n";
  print "Day is: $2\n";
  print "Time is: $3\n";
  print "User is: $4\n";
  print "IP is: $5\n";
  print "File is: $6\n";
  print "Size is : $7\n";
  print "Speed is : $8\n";
}

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In reply to Pure Ftpd log regex by redhotpenguin

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