Hi demerphq,
Thanks for the P::RD grammar and the thoughts. If you read my original post to the end, you'd see I did indeed think about using P::RD, but came to the conclusion that thats a lot of overhead for something that can also be done in a couple of subs.
I needed a language parser recently, found P::RD, was impressed, and used it. The docu sure is long, but well-written and easy to understand (in my opinion), I haven't used <leftop> yet, but I managed my task without it, and I guess I'd get this one too if I tried, if not as terse as your soloution :)

Like I mentioned above, this is a real-protocol used to communicate between Muds and a communications server/router. Info here Intermud3 spec if anyones interested. So I'd hope it won't throw empty elements at me, but you never know. :)

As to returning undef without causing the rule to fail, wasn't that just a case of doing:

rule : production { $return = undef; 1; }

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? Or am I understanding you wrong?
I think I'll go benchmark these solutions.. Thanks everyone for the answers!

C.

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