Although I agree that it might be better to consider 'apple_pear' as one token rather than two (as suggested by Elian and dreadpiratepeter above, the code below should do what you want: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Parse::RecDescent;

my $text = <<EOI
apple_pear
cherry
munchy_nice_apricot
mint_
_banana
raspberry__pie
EOI

$Parse::RecDescent::skip = '[ \t]*';

my $grammar = q(

  { use Data::Dumper }

  data: line(s)
  line: term endofline
  term: word(s /_/) ...endofline
       { print Dumper(\%item); }
  word: /[a-z]+/
  endofline: /[\n\r]+/

);

my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);
if ($parser->data($text)) {
    print "ok\n";
}

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Hope this helps, -gjb-

Update: changed the code to suite rkg's requirement that '_apple', 'apple__juice' and 'apple_' should not be accepted. The grammar happens to be more elegant now and I learned about separator patterns.

Update 2: removed an unused token from the grammar.

In reply to Re: ParseRecDescent and csv-like data by gjb
in thread ParseRecDescent and csv-like data by rkg

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