Taking an example grammar from the FAQ: 
my $grammar = q{
  list:  <leftop: item ',' item> 
  item: word list <commit>
      | word 
  word: /\w+/  
};

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You can parse a nested list like a, b, (c, d (e,f)) I want to deviate from this and enclose the start of the list in parens and return all of the entire text string between the parens, with an array ref for nested parens. So the text: (string one(string two)string three) Returns ['string one', ['string two'],'string three'] I think that this grammar does what I want, but am not sure if it's the best solution: 
my $grammar = q{
  list: '(' item(s) ')'
  item: list <commit>
        | word
  word: /[^()]*/  
};

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I would like to know if there is a better way to do this. Also, with this approach I cannot have any parens in my text strings within parens. If I wanted to be able to escape parens and include them within the text, how would I go about doing it?

In reply to Parse::RecDescent - I'm just not getting it by loomis53

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