Is there a way to extract fields which is : separated

[Hema_Nithya]

John:x:/home/John:/bin/bash 

is there a way to extract the field from above with colon separated.  We have many users in the above format from /etc/passwd 

John - username 

x - passwd 

/home/John - path 

[ITWhisperer · Accepted solution]

| rex "(?<username>[^:]+):(?<passwd>[^:]+):(?<path>[^:]+)"

[Hema_Nithya]

How to deal with the empty fields between . Example there is empty field between passwd and after home directory 

userid:passwd: :/home/John: : 

[ITWhisperer]

| rex "(?<username>[^:]*):(?<passwd>[^:]*):(?<path>[^:]*)"

[Hema_Nithya]

Thank you , let me check and update you !