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Daan Hoogland wrote:
> I end up with [a buffer containing lines of the form]
> groupname:member1,member2 and I want it in a list:
> (list "groupname" (list "member1" "member2"))

  (require 'cl)
  (defun munge-buffer ()
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (loop while (re-search-forward "^\\(\\w+\\):\\(\\w+\\),\\(\\w+\\)$" nil t)
          collect `(,(match-string 1) (,(match-string 2) ,(match-string 3)))))

-- 
Gareth Rees