Hi, I am looking for some help with Parse::RecDescent. I wrote the following code to parse a string containing several parameters for an SQL style search. The goal is to create a tree I can traverse from the bottom up so that I can execute the code in order. I started with a simple example but if you look at the commented out input you will see where I hope to end up. 
#   my $input = "(cvtype='problem') and (problem_description match '*'
+) and ((problem_synopsis match 'FCSIM') or (problem_synopsis match 'A
+TTE')) and (create_time>time('06/01/2014 0:00:00')) and (create_time<
+time('09/30/2014 0:00:00'))";
   my $input = "(cvtype='problem') and (problem_description match '*')
+";

   print "Text: $input\n";
  
   my $grammar = q{
      startrule: expr
      expr: operand operation(s?)
         { $return = @{$item[2]} ? { $item[2], $item[1]} : $item[1]}
      operation: /and | or/ operand 
         { $return = { $item[1], $item[2] }}
      operand: '(' expr ')'
         { $return = $item[2] }
     | term { $item[1]}
      term: /[\w\s=><\/:"'\*_]+/
 
      };

      my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);
      my $result = $parser->startrule($input) or die "Could Not Parse!
+\n";

      print Dumper $result;

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The results look like this: 

$VAR1 = {
          'ARRAY(0xa102e8)' => 'cvtype=\'problem\''
        };

I expected the results to look something like this:

$VAR1 = {
           {
             'cvtype=\'problem\''
           }
        {
           and
        }
           {
             problem_description match \'*\'
           }
        };

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I know I am missing something fundamental. But I can’t seem to find it. I don't have any Idea where that array ref is coming from. Any help you can provide would be helpful.
P.S. I also have the Debug output but it's huge. Please let me know if you think I should post it.
Thank You,
DevM

In reply to Can I get some rules help with PARSE::RECDESCENT by DevM

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