Hi Phillip,

Firstly, as Tachyon says these rules can get really funky really quickly, especialy when you want to try and model nested things of conditional instructions (as I'm finding out for with my tinkering).
That aside I've remodelled my rules(using my last example code) to accomodate the type of entries you wanted. First here are some definitions.... in my little language these are my types...

5 # Any number is a 'literal'
"fluffy" # encased text I call an 'identifier'
$cuddles # this is a 'variable'
@animals # this is an 'array'
%stuff # this is a hash

Now if you follow the rules you'll see that you can pretty much have any cobination of these...so you can do seksi things like this.. (put this in the text section from before as an example)

%stuff = { animal => @pets, age => 5, name => "fluffy", colour => $col };

(Just as a side note the $a = "hello" and $b = "world" should have already worked with my existing program, this bit is so you can embed 'variable's and 'array's in things)

Replace all the bits in my 'rules' section from before with the following and that should spice things up...

        # --- Rules ---
        parse           : stmt(s?) EOF
                        { $item[1] }

        stmt            : variable ';'          { $item[1] }
                        | array ';'             { $item[1] }
                        | hash ';'              { $item[1] }
                        | <error>

        arrayelement    : term ',' { [ @item[0, 1] ] }
                        | term { [ @item[0, 1] ] }
        arrayname       : ARRAY IDENTIFIER { [ 'array', $item[2] ] }

        array           : arrayname EQUAL arrayelement(s?)
                        { [ @item[2, 4] ] }
        hashelement     : IDENTIFIER HASHASSIGN term ',' { [ @item[0,1
+,3] ] }
                        | IDENTIFIER HASHASSIGN term { [ @item[0,1,3] 
+] }
        hash            : HASH IDENTIFIER EQUAL '{' hashelement(s?) '}
+'
                        { [ @item [0, 2, 5] ] }

        variablename    : VAR IDENTIFIER { [ 'variable', $item[2] ] }
        variable        : variablename EQUAL term
                        { [ @item[0, 2, 4] ] }

        term            : QUOTE IDENTIFIER QUOTE { [ 'identifier', $it
+em[2] ] }
                        | LITERAL    { [ 'literal',    $item[1] ] }
                        | arrayname { $item[1] }
                        | variablename { $item[1] }
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....and the output for the example I gave you...

$VAR1 = [
          [
            'hash',
            'stuff',
            [
              [
                'hashelement',
                'animal',
                [
                  'array',
                  'pets'
                ]
              ],
              [
                'hashelement',
                'age',
                [
                  'literal',
                  '5'
                ]
              ],
              [
                'hashelement',
                'name',
                [
                  'identifier',
                  'fluffy'
                ]
              ],
              [
                'hashelement',
                'colour',
                [
                  'variable',
                  'col'
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
        ];
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Have phun...
Regards Paul

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