I am working on a new grammar for my Config::Yacp module so that it can handle comments inside the configuration file. My test script is below:
#!/opt/perl5/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Parse::RecDescent;
use vars qw ($grammar);

$::RD_AUTOACTION=q{print"$item[0]: @item[1..$#item]\n"; 1};

$grammar = q(
      file: section(s)
      section: header assign(s?)
      header: '[' /\w+/ ']'
      assign: /\w+/ '=' /\w+/ | /\w+/ '=' /\w+/ '' /\s+[\;#]/ /\w+$/
      );
my $parser= Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);

my $text;

{
 $/=undef;
 $text=<DATA>;
}

my $tree=$parser->file($text);

__DATA__
[Section1]
key1 = value1    #Comment
key2 = value2   ;Comment
key3 = value3

[Section2]
key4 = value4
key5 = value5

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The output from this is:
header: [ Section1 ]
assign: key1 = value1
section: 1 ARRAY(0x401da6cc)
file: ARRAY(0x401da708)

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By printing out $#item in the $::RD_AUTOACTION, I was able to see that it was totally ignoring anything past the value.
Can someone give me a pointer in the right direction?

TStanley
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