Oh wise monks,

I seek to increase my regular expression foo and ask for your guidance in streamlining this snippet I wrote to split up a file I have containing VirtualHost entries for Apache. In agreeing to host my friends' websites I have grown lazy and accumulated many VirtualHosts in one single file. Now is the time to clean up my act. Here's what I have which works, I ask your teachings in how to make this code more elegant.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FH, '< vhosts.conf');
my $content = do {local $/; <FH> };

my $start = q{<VirtualHost \*:80>};
my $finish = q{</VirtualHost>};
my @vhosts = $content =~ m!$start(.*?)$finish!sg;

foreach my $vhost (@vhosts) {
    my ($name) = $vhost =~ /ServerName\s(\S+)/;
    open(OUT, "> $name.conf") or die "Can't open outfile $name: $!\n";
    print OUT "<VirtualHost *:80>";
    print OUT $vhost;
    print OUT "</VirtualHost>";
    close(OUT);
}

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For those not familiar with the data I'm trying to split up here's an example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.foobar.com
    ServerAlias foobar.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/foobar.com
    <Directory /var/www/foobar.com>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i -> %U\" \"%{Use
+r-Agent}i\
"" combined
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/foobar.com.error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/foobar.com.access_log combined
    Include conf/deflate.conf
</VirtualHost>

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In reply to Clean up httpd.conf virtual host mess with perl by redhotpenguin

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