Text Parsing with F#

I've always had a fear of parsing text.  Strange since it's a basic programmer's task.  I've always found it to be tedious and boring, and the resulting code is a jumbled mess of indexes and string parsing methods.  I avoid it every chance I get. And there's regex.  The syntax is cryptic and difficult to remember.  It's another thing I should know well, but, again, I avoid it. Recently I decided to come to grips with this weakness and parse a text file containing information about TCP sockets in a TIME_WAIT status. Read more