my vsftpd.log file has entries that look like this:

Sun Oct 24 10:10:29 2010 [pid 2] CONNECT: Client "192.168.0.0"
Sun Oct 24 10:10:29 2010 [pid 1] [user] OK LOGIN: Client "192.168.0.0"
Sun Oct 24 10:10:30 2010 [pid 3] [user] FAIL UPLOAD: Client "192.168.0
+.0", "/home/path/to/file", 0.00Kbyte/sec

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I want to split it into the following sections for use later in the code 
{{Sun} {Oct} {24} {10:10:29} {2010}} [pid 2] {CONNECT}: Client "{192.1
+68.0.0}"
{{Sun} {Oct} {24} {10:10:29} {2010}} [pid 1] {[user]} {OK LOGIN}: Clie
+nt "{192.168.0.0}"
{{Sun} {Oct} {24} {10:10:29} {2010}} [pid 3] {[user]} {FAIL UPLOAD}: C
+lient "{192.168.0.0}", "{/path/to/file}", 0.00Kbyte/sec

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currently I am using the split function to parse the logs, but this is giving me irregular results as not all lines are the same, and there are a variety of different lines. 
foreach (<$FHIN>){
   my ($dow, $month, $dom, $time, $pid, $user, $status, $client, $ip, 
+$file_path, $dl_speed) = split / /,$_;
}

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can someone please suggest a better method for parsing and splitting the log?
thanks in advance.

In reply to Parseing FTP Logs by PyrexKidd

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