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in reply to Re^2: Windows Net Use
in thread Windows Net Use

For the human eye it looks more gibberish, but for parsing it is less error prone.

As marto already pointed out, the best solution is Text::CSV. Since CSV means "comma separated values", the second best is splitting on the commas.

The first line that WMIC outputs, BTW, contains the field names.