use strict; use warnings; my @data; while(){ push @data, { 'user' => $1 } if /^user: (\w+)/; $data[-1]{'summary'} = $1 if /summary\s+"(.+)"/; $data[-1]{'accesslevel'} = $1 if /access-level\s+(\S+)/; $data[-1]{'group'} = $1 if /group\s+(\S+)/; } for my $user (@data){ print join ',', map { $user->{$_} // '' } qw(user summary accesslevel group); print "\n"; } __DATA__ user: myus44 [up] ------------ admin-state enabled summary "Johnny Cash" access-level group-defined group mi-group [up] user: jar1543 [up] ------------ admin-state enabled summary "Lara Croft" access-level group-defined group jar-head [up] user: myprivilegeduser [up] ----------- admin-state enabled access-level privileged