Some Regex variations here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/966578/parse-response-from-ftp-list-command-syntax-variations

>I have a FTP class which does pretty much everything. All has worked well so far, until last night when we discovered that a FTP server we were trying to connect to was returning the file list format in a different format.
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>Basically, a FTP server returns the directory listing like this:
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>total 4696
>drw-rw-rw-   1 user     group           0 Feb  6 15:46 .
>drw-rw-rw-   1 user     group           0 Feb  6 15:46 ..
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group        4825 May  3  2010 Account.png
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group        5242 May  3  2010 Administration.png
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group        4117 Apr 17  2011 Agent.png
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group        1402 Dec 30  2005 AmazonCA.gif
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>However, what I received was this:
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>-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group            4480 Feb 15  2:25 8A17T2T1.txt
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>We can see there is an offset starting from the number of bytes.
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>I can check for a space character at a specific position to determine how to extract the number of bytes, the date and the name. Otherwise, I would apply a lookup based on the offset of that other format.
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>Anyone would have a comment on this?