my $grammar = <<'GRAMMAR' { use strict; use warnings; sub treeify { my $t = shift; # my($l,$r) = (shift,shift); while(@_) { my($l,$r) = (shift,shift); $t = [ 'op',$l, (ref $t eq 'ARRAY' && !$#$t ? @$t : $t), (ref $r eq 'ARRAY' && !$#$r ? @$r : $r) ] } return $t; } } startrule: bin_op bin_op: comp_op # Lowest precendance. comp_op: { treeify(@{$item[1]}); } add_op: { treeify(@{$item[1]}); } prod_op : { treeify(@{$item[1]}); } # Highest precendance. mod_op : { treeify(@{$item[1]}); } SUM : '+' | '-' PROD : '*' | '/' MOD : '%' COMP : />=?|<=?|!=|==?|le|ge|eq|ne|lt|gt/ term: function | '(' bin_op ')' { $item[2] } | number | string if: /if/i '(' list_bin_op list_bin_op bin_op ')' { ['func',@item[1,3..5]] } concat: /concat/i '(' list_bin_op(s) bin_op ')' { ['func',$item[1],@{$item[3]},$item[4]] } left: /left/i '(' list_bin_op bin_op ')' { ['func',@item[1,3,4]] } right: /right/i '(' list_bin_op bin_op ')' { ['func',@item[1,3,4]] } ifnull: /ifnull/i '(' list_bin_op bin_op ')' { ['func',@item[1,3,4]] } function: if | concat | left | right | ifnull number: /[+-]?\d+/ { $item[1] } string: { $_ = extract_quotelike($text); chop; substr($_,0,1,''); $_; } { [@item] } #$thisparser->startrule($item[2],1,$type) list_bin_op: bin_op ',' { $item[1] } GRAMMAR ;