Hi perlmongers,

my current problem is the following:

I have a ldif input file from an ldap database, which I want to get the groupnames, guid and members from.

The structure is like this: 

<some irrelevant data or the same like downwards>

dn: cn=groupname1,dc=domain,dc=com
cn: groupname1
gidNumber: 122
memberUid: member1
memberUid: member2
memberUid: member3
memberUid: member4
memberUid: member6
memberUid: member7
userPassword:: Kg==
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixGroup
creatorsName: uid=cyrus,dc=domain,dc=com
createTimestamp: 20040408083004Z
modifiersName: uid=cyrus,dc=domain,dc=com
modifyTimestamp: 20040408083004Z

<more irrelevant data or the same like above>

dn: cn=groupname2,dc=domain,dc=com
cn: groupname2
gidNumber: 113
userPassword:: Kg==
objectClass: top
objectClass: posixGroup
creatorsName: uid=cyrus,dc=domain,dc=com
createTimestamp: 20031208140152Z
memberUid: member1
memberUid: member2
memberUid: member3
memberUid: member4
memberUid: member6
memberUid: member7
description: some irrelevant description
modifiersName: uid=cyrus,dc=domain,dc=com
modifyTimestamp: 20040404112251Z

<more irrelevant data or the same like above>

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Each group of information is separated from the others with an empty line as you can see.

Now I want to regexp across the file and collect from each group of information starting with 

dn: cn=<groupname>,dc=domain,dc=com

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the following data: 
cn: <groupname><br>
gidNumber: <guid><br>
memberUid: <membername>

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The aim is to collect this data to use for another cyrus imap mailserver getting the groups information from an mysql database.

How can I do this?

--

there are no silly questions

killerhippy

In reply to rexexp across a ldap ldif file, collecting cn: guid: memberUID: by khippy

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