You are heading for disaster by stripping the "'s from "summary". If there are ,'s in the summary, your CSV will be corrupt. Another point is that not all records seem to have the same fields defined. One could do better by being more generic. And finally, use a decent CSV module for output like Text::CSV_XS or Text::CSV.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.014;
use warnings;
use Text::CSV_XS;
my %hdr;
my @dta;
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1, eol => "\r
+\n" });
{ local $/ = "";
while (<DATA>) {
my %data = m/^\s*(\w[^ :]+)[: ]+(.*\S)\s*$/gm;
$hdr{$_}++ for keys %data;
push @dta, \%data;
}
my @hdr = keys %hdr;
$csv->print (*STDOUT, \@hdr);
$csv->print (*STDOUT, [ @{$_}{@hdr} ]) for @dta;
}
__END__
user: myus44 [up]
------------
admin-state enabled
summary "Johnny Cash"
access-level group-defined
group mi-group [up]
user: jar1543 [up]
------------
admin-state enabled
summary "Lara Croft"
access-level group-defined
group jar-head [up]
user: myprivilegeduser [up]
-----------
admin-state enabled
access-level privileged
will produce:
group,summary,user,access-level,admin-state
"mi-group [up]","""Johnny Cash""","myus44 [up]",group-defined,enabled
"jar-head [up]","""Lara Croft""","jar1543 [up]",group-defined,enabled
,,"myprivilegeduser [up]",privileged,enabled
This way the data is exactly what it was. If you do not want the double quotes, but still be safe:
while (<DATA>) {
my %data = m/^\s*(\w[^ :]+)[: ]+(.*\S)\s*$/gm;
$hdr{$_}++ for keys %data;
s/^"(.*)"$/$1/ for values %data;
push @dta, \%data;
}
To produce
group,summary,user,access-level,admin-state
"mi-group [up]","Johnny Cash","myus44 [up]",group-defined,enabled
"jar-head [up]","Lara Croft","jar1543 [up]",group-defined,enabled
,,"myprivilegeduser [up]",privileged,enabled
And finally, if you want the user as first/key field, proceed like
delete $hdr{user};
my @hdr = ("user", keys %hdr);
to get
user,group,summary,access-level,admin-state
"myus44 [up]","mi-group [up]","Johnny Cash",group-defined,enabled
"jar1543 [up]","jar-head [up]","Lara Croft",group-defined,enabled
"myprivilegeduser [up]",,,privileged,enabled
Side note: Text::CSV_XS will have no problems with undefined fields
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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