Assuming you want to display ethernet (or other network-related) statistics, you could take another approach:
Instead of running NETSTAT, use Win32::PerfMon; , and bind to the "Network Interface" object. All kind of goodies await there..
"Man cannot live by bread alone...
He'd better have some goat cheese and wine to go with it!"
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