use Data::Dumper; $hashref = { key1 => { more => 'less' }, key2 => { help => 'stop' }, key3 => { wow => [ 'list_element_0', '1' , '2' ] }, }; print Dumper($hashref); #### use Data::Dumper; use Parse::RecDescent; my $grammer = q{ record: id name id: m[(.{6})] { print "id => $1 " if $1 } name: m[(.*)] { print "name => $1 "; } }; my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammer); print Dumper($parser);