I have been trying to format a file which contains lines like the ones below over and over again. 
answer-group mark.example.com owner "example" type vip
     answer-add 10.0.0.1 name mark1.example.com weight 1 
     answer-add 10.0.0.2 name mark2.example.com weight 1 
     answer-add 10.0.0.3 name mark3.example.com weight 1 
answer-group jeff.example.com owner "example" type vip
     answer-add 10.0.0.9 name jeff1.example.com weight 1
     answer-add 10.0.0.15 name jeff2.example.com weight 1

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I would just like to format this file with a script so that the output looks like as follows: 
mark.example.com,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2,10.0.0.3
jeff.example.com,10.0.0.9,10.0.0.15

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I have been testing this out using "while" or "foreach" loops while also using "split" to get the specific IP and/or example.com names, but I cannot get the script to output the data in the same line while reading from a filehandle. Any help here would be appreciated.

In reply to Format lines in a File to be outputted in a different sequence by markgoz

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