I have a task to take a netgroup file from a unix server and to create a directory tree from the data. This tree is how our admins then recreate the netgroup for NIS on Solaris.

Creating the tree I've just about figured out, probably not the best solution but I think it works. The problem now is taking the data from the file and writing it out to a set of flat files in this tree.

The data looks like 

(host,,) (host-1,,) (host-1.domain,,) (host_234,,)

or

(,user,) (,user,)

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There maybe one or more data entry on each line.

I need to convert this to 

data
data
data
...

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Now using reg-ex coach on a PC I came up with 
s/\W*([\w._-]+)\W+/$1\n/g

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But this only gets the first data item in Perl.

A pointer would be jolly helpful. I've searched a bit but can't quite see what I need.

In reply to Process netgroup file with a regex by tweetiepooh

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