Daunting regexp task.

[Anon]

I was wondering, can anybody help me or point me to an exaple of a regexp that parses an FTP's LIST command. Since it is not standardized... (BOO!) it's a pain, and I don't know where to start. I can convert most anything to PHP style, but what I'm working on needs to be able to parse and FTP list. Thanks for any help!
--Nate

[Anon]

Can we get an example of a LIST command, and what you want to parse out?

[Anon]

heres a list on my website:

total 170
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 490 Sep 6 2000 .cshrc
-rw------- 1 32degree 32degree 1285 Jul 4 2001 .history
-rw-rw-r-- 1 32degree 32degree 100 Sep 23 2000 .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 604 Sep 6 2000 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 164 Sep 6 2000 .login_conf
-rw------- 1 32degree 32degree 375 Sep 6 2000 .mail_aliases
-rw------- 1 32degree 32degree 65807 Feb 15 02:02 .maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 335 Sep 6 2000 .mailrc
-rw------- 1 32degree 32degree 14 Jun 30 2001 .mysql_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 1101 Oct 8 2000 .procmailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 726 Sep 6 2000 .profile
-rw------- 1 32degree 32degree 280 Sep 6 2000 .rhosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 856 Sep 6 2000 .shrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 32degree 32degree 20 Oct 28 2000 .userslicht
drwxrwxr-x 8 32degree 32degree 512 Jun 8 2001 etc
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root 32degree 35 Feb 16 01:32 log -> /usr/local/etc/httpd
/log13/32degree
drwxr-xr-x 4 32degree 32degree 512 Jan 9 2001 majordomo
drwxr-xr-x 2 32degree 32degree 512 Jan 9 2001 mivadata
drwxrwxrwx 7 32degree 32degree 2048 Jan 25 17:45 public_html

however the problem is all lists dont look like that, you can replace spaces with --s for example, or anything of that sort. the goal here is to seperate each element for further parsing later.

thanks, nate