use strict; use warnings; use Parse::RecDescent; use Data::Dumper; my $g = Parse::RecDescent->new(<<'EOG'); main: head row(s) /\Z/ { [$item[1], @{$item[2]}]; } | head: /.*/ /-*/ { $item[1]; } row: date time num { [@item[1..3]]; } date: /\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d/ time: /\d\d:\d\d:\d\d/ num: /[\d\.]+/ EOG my $data = join '', ; print Dumper($g->main($data)); __DATA__ Timestamp 10.72.218.82:cpu_busy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009-11-05 17:59:52 1.501 2009-10-15 17:39:52 2.501 2009-12-25 17:19:52 3.501