i am having a difficulty parsing a dollar sign ($) followed by a decimal value. here's my grammar: 

$test = "$5.1";
$grammar = q {
  input: dollar decimal      
  dollar : /\$/  { $item[1] }
  decimal  : /[-+]?(\d+)?\.\d+/    { warn "decimal! $item[1]" }
...

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i keep getting an error during a parse. does anyone see what i am doing wrong? if i replace $ with a % sign in the grammar and $test then everything works but the dollar is giving me a hard time. any help would be greatly appreciated. this sounds like a very trivial problem but i just don't see it.

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In reply to Parse::RecDescent and dollar sign by unk1911

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