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The netstat command produces tab-delimited, fixed-width tables. The following example converts the active connections that list active TCP connections as well as listening TCP and UDP ports to an object.

A snippet of the output the example is intended to parse is shown in the following code :

PS> netstat -anoActive Connections  Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID  TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 124  TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4  TCP 0.0.0.0:5357 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4 

When handling text such as this, a pattern based on whitespace (or not whitespace) can be used:

^\s*\S+\s+\S+ 

For each column, the following expression with a named group is created:

(?<ColumnName>\S+)\s+ 

The trailing \s+ is omitted for the ...

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