Ok I gave your $text.= @queue idea a try, but it seems unwilling to match multiple records. Im not real sure what Im doing wrong so I have no idea how proceed. Here is a copy of my new grammer with a couple of tother minor changes included. Any ideas of what I've done wrong would be appreciated. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Parse::RecDescent;
use Data::Dumper;

our $RD_TRACE=1;

my $Grammar=<<'END_GRAMMAR';

{my $company=""}

startrule   :   file

file        :   header record(s?) trailer_t
                {
                    $return={header=>$item[1],records=>$item[2],count=
+>$item[3]};
                    1;
                }

header      :   header_t data_t
                {
                    $return={company=>$item[1],code=>$item[2]};
                      $text.=shift @::text;
                      print "Company Set to $company\n Text=$text";
                      1;
                }

record      :   valid_record | <error>

valid_record:   type_t ',' number_t ',' number_t(?) ',' "$company"
                {
                    $return=[ $item[1],$item[3],@{$item[5]} ? $item[5]
+ : undef ];
                    $text.=shift @::text;
                    print "Text=$text";
                    1;
                }

header_t    :   /HDR\w+/ {$return=substr($item[1],3); $company=$return
+;1;}
trailer_t   :   /TLR\d+/ {$return=substr($item[1],3)}

data_t      :   /\w+/
type_t      :   /ADD(?:RANGE)?|DELETE(?:RANGE)?/
number_t    :   /\d+/

END_GRAMMAR


my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($Grammar) or die "Bad grammar!\n";


our @text=<DATA>;

if (defined( my $t=$parser->startrule(shift @text))) {
    print Dumper($t);
} else {
    print "Bad text!\n";
}


__DATA__
HDRCOMPNAME BIG000OLD111IDENTIFIER1020301WITH1010LOTS1010OF1010CRAP
ADD,1234567890,,COMPNAME
ADD,1234567891,,COMPNAME
ADD,1234567892,,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,1468,1680,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,2468,2680,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,3468,3680,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654321,,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654322,,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654323,,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,13579,13599,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,23579,23599,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,33579,33599,COMPNAME
TLR000012

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Now weirdly it seems to perform as expected if the same data is organized as so: 
HDRCOMPNAME BIG000OLD111IDENTIFIER1020301WITH1010LOTS1010OF1010CRAP
ADD,1234567890,,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,1468,1680,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654321,,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,13579,13599,COMPNAME
ADD,1234567891,,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,2468,2680,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654322,,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,33579,33599,COMPNAME
ADD,1234567892,,COMPNAME
ADDRANGE,3468,3680,COMPNAME
DELETE,987654323,,COMPNAME
DELETERANGE,23579,23599,COMPNAME
TLR000012

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Which really confuses me! What have I done wrong? Any clues?

Yves / DeMerphq
--
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In reply to Re: Re: advice with Parse::RecDescent by demerphq
in thread advice with Parse::RecDescent by demerphq

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