Hey All,

I have a following a LDIF file to process through Perl -

###############################################################
dn: ou=71404558, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=People, ou=71404558, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=Groups, ou=71404558, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=40208723, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=People, ou=40208723, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=Groups, ou=40208723, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: cn=Mygroup,ou=Groups, ou=40208723, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=
paragkalra.com
dn: ou=63613012, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: cn=Manager,ou=63613012, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=People, ou=63613012, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=Groups, ou=63613012, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=$%^&?()+-, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=[]...@#%*, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: cn=CEO,ou=[]...@#%*, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=76884580, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=People, ou=76884580, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
dn: ou=Groups, ou=76884580, ou=Company, ou=Personal, o=paragkalra.com
################################################################

My aim is to extract all those lines starting with the string - 'dn:ou' and
having only 3 levels of OU heirarchy i.e having the string 'ou=' only 3
times. Also he value of 'ou' can be anything i.e any character (including
special characters) except comman (,).

So to accomplish it I have written following code and is working -

#################################################################
# Author: Parag

my $file = $ARGV[0];

open FILE, $file;

while ( <FILE> ) {
    $count = 0;
    $_ =~ s/(\s)+//g;
    $count++ while $_ =~ /(ou=)/g;
    if ( ($count == 3) && ($_ =~ /^(dn:ou)/) ) {
        print "$_\n";
    }
}

close FILE;

################################################################



But I would like to accomplish it through 1 singe regex like using following
code -


############################################################
# Author: Parag

my $file = $ARGV[0];

open FILE, $file;

while ( <FILE> ) {
    $_ =~ s/(\s)+//g;
    if ( $_ =~ /(dn:ou=)([\d\D]+)(ou=Company,ou=Personal,o=paragkalra.com
)/){
      print "$_\n";
    }
}

close FILE;

############################################################
Any pointers?

Cheers,
Parag

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