Would help to know if (hopefully) the columns are separated by something other than a bunch of spaces...tab would be convenient. Otherwise I guess you could just split on more than two spaces, but I don't know exactly what the data looks like there.

Anyway, a simple approach: pseudo-codish

foreach (@lines)
{
    next if (/-+/ || /^Sharename/);
    last if (/^Server/);
    my @vals = split /\s{2,}/;
    $hash{"$vals[0]"}{'Type'} = $vals[1];
    $hash{"$vals[0]"}{'Comment'} = $vals[2];
}

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As usual, untested and mostly not proofread. =) Point out errors as you see fit, of course this is a totally simple method of solving the problem...much cooler solutions abound.

Enjoy

Trinary

In reply to Re: multi-line (string doc) parsing by Trinary
in thread multi-line (string doc) parsing by LoneRanger

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