Why not just parse it all and then just extract what you need? For instance, to get the stats rule: 

use Parse::RecDescent;
use Data::Dumper;

# capture all, trim rulename
$::RD_AUTOACTION = q { [@item[1..$#item]] };
undef $::RD_WARN;

my $grammar = q{
    classStart : class(s)
    class      : 'class' classinfo stats stats2 stats3
    classinfo  : stuff
    stats      : 'Sent'     /\d+/   'bytes'      /\d+/    'pkts'
                 '(dropped' /\d+?,/ 'overlimits' /\d+?\)/
    stats2     : stuff 
    stats3     : stuff 
    stuff      : /.*/
};

my $code = q{
    class htb 2:11 root leaf 13: prio 0 rate 3125bps ceil .....
    Sent 16822354 bytes 15272 pkts (dropped 0, overlimits 0)
    lended: 15272 borrowed: 0 giants: 0
    tokens: 38 ctokens: 38
};
$code =~ s/^\s*//g;

my $parser = new Parse::RecDescent($grammar) or die $!;
my $data = $parser->classStart($code)->[0];
my @stats;

# extract stats
foreach (@$data) {
    push @stats, $_->[2];
}

print Dumper \@stats;

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Its just that simple.

In reply to Re: RecDescent, flushing/skipping stuff by jryan
in thread RecDescent, flushing/skipping stuff by bugsbunny

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