HDRCOMPNAME BIG000OLD111IDENTIFIER1020301WITH1010LOTS1010OF1010CRAP ADD,1234567890,,COMPNAME ADDRANGE,2468,4680,COMPNAME DELETE,987654321,,COMPNAME DELETERANGE,13579,13599,COMPNAME TLR000004 #### my $Grammar=<<'END_GRAMMAR'; startrule : file file : header record(s?) trailer_t { $return={ header=>$item[1], records=>$item[2], count=>$item[3] } } header : header_t data_t { $return={ company=>$item[1], code=>$item[2] } } record : valid_rec | valid_rec : type_t ',' number_t ',' number_t(?) ',' name_t { $return=[ $item[1], $item[3], @{$item[5]} ? $item[5] : undef, $item[7] ] } header_t : /HDR\w+/ { $return=substr($item[1],3) } trailer_t : /TLR\d+/ { $return=substr($item[1],3) } data_t : /\w+/ type_t : /ADD(?:RANGE)?|DELETE(?:RANGE)/ number_t : /\d+/ name_t : /\w+/ END_GRAMMAR