Matching every instance of text between two characters

Tuna has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am writing a script which will return distribution lists, their owners and their members. The file that I am parsing for this info is a .CSV file.

Here's what I've got so far:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::CSV;

my $file = "/home/trix/Desktop/thisone.CSV";
my ($line, $key1, $key2, $test, $key3, @field, $members, $owner);
my $count = 0;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new();

open IN, "$file" or die "Can't open $file: $!\n";

while ($line = <IN> ){
    chomp $line;
    $csv->parse($line) ;
    @field = $csv->fields;
    $key1 = $field[1];
    $key2 = $field[2];
    $key3 = $field[3];
    ++$count;

 if ($key1 =~ s/^\\\~//) {  
    print "List:     $key1\n";
}
 if ($key2 =~ /\/o\=NETC\/ou\=(.*)\/cn\=Recipients\/cn\=(.*)/g) {
     $owner = $2;  
}
    else {
    $owner = "ssesar";
}
    print "Owner:    $owner\n";

($members) = ($key3 =~ /\=(.*)\%/g); 
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          
 #  problematic code

    print "Members:  $members\n\n";

print "############################################\n\n";

}

print "Boston:  $count lists\n
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This will print, for instance:

############################################
 
List:     Prod Dev SP
Owner:    NONE
Members:  Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=jdye%/ou=San Francisco/cn=Recipients
+/cn=onisbett%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=acorneau%/ou=Boston/cn=Recip
+ients/cn=kfleming%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=amiller%/ou=Boston/cn=R
+ecipients/cn=rcrow%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=tgoshco%/ou=San Franci
+sco/cn=Recipients/cn=ldixon
 
############################################
 
List:     Prod Dev IT+CR+ME
Owner:    NONE
Members:  San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=medelstein%/ou=Boston/cn=Reci
+pients/cn=thodes%/ou=San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=gdistasi%/ou=Bost
+on/cn=Recipients/cn=staylor%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=drico%/ou=Bos
+ton/cn=Recipients/cn=kkarrman%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=tgoshco%/ou
+=San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=rscaife
 
############################################
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My question is, how can I extract only the member's names from the string of data after Members:?

It seems to me that the way to approach this problem is to match everything between "=" and "%". Or, maybe there's a better way to parse CSV data??

If it helps, the CSV file that I am using can be found here.

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Re: Matching every instance of text between two characters by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 24, 2001 at 03:08 UTC
If every member has the form `/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=thodes` then you could do something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my $separator = qr{(?:%?/ou=)\|/cn=}; my @fields = split( $separator, $_ ); shift(@fields); # remove empty first field while (my ($city, $recip, $name) = splice(@fields, 0, 3)) { die "bad $recip format\n" if $recip ne 'Recipients'; print "city: $city name: $name\n"; } } __DATA__ /ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=jdye%/ou=San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=on +isbett%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=acorneau%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/ +cn=kfleming%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=amiller%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipie +nts/cn=rcrow%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=tgoshco%/ou=San Francisco/cn +=Recipients/cn=ldixon /ou=San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=medelstein%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients +/cn=thodes%/ou=San Francisco/cn=Recipients/cn=gdistasi%/ou=Boston/cn= +Recipients/cn=staylor%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=drico%/ou=Boston/cn +=Recipients/cn=kkarrman%/ou=Boston/cn=Recipients/cn=tgoshco%/ou=San F +rancisco/cn=Recipients/cn=rscaife [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Matching every instance of text between two characters by toma (Vicar) on Jun 24, 2001 at 06:23 UTC
Since you are working on LDAP data, you might want to consider using one of the LDAP modules, such as DBD::LDAP. This module adds a database-independent SQL layer to an LDAP database. It provides an alternative to dealing with your data as comma-separated values. It should work perfectly the first time! - toma	[reply]


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