OK guys, it's getting to look worse all the time. I found a much simpler example of something that I think is going terribly wrong, and I'd like you to chew it over. 
use HOP::Lexer 'string_lexer';
my $text = 'xselectx';
my $lexer = string_lexer( $text,
  [KEYWORD  => qr/select/i],
  [WORD     => qr/\w+/    ]
);

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(n.b. string_lexer is just a routine in the module that wraps the input string in an iterator, and then calls make_lexer, so we don't have to do it by hand. The code we have to write just becomes a bit simpler.)

Tell me that the result it parses into is what you think makes sense. Because it doesn't make any sense to me at all: 

['WORD','x'],
['KEYWORD','select'],
['WORD','x']

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This is just so messed up.

update I just read cmarcelo's reply... You want me to swap the rules? OK... 

use HOP::Lexer 'string_lexer';
my $text = 'select xselectx';
my $lexer = string_lexer( $text,
  [WORD     => qr/\w+/    ],
  [KEYWORD  => qr/select/i],
);

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Outcome: 
['WORD','select'],
' ',
['WORD','xselectx']

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No good.

In reply to Re: HOP::Lexer not doing what I expected by bart
in thread HOP::Lexer not doing what I expected by bart

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