regexp question

[Naug]

Hello ppl I am trying to parse an rtf file to get clean text out but as I am new to regexp I came apon something I dont know how to do.

K, thing is I need to get a chunk of string which sattisfies following condition: indefinetely long repetition of

backslash,word symbol*

so something like (\\\w*)* where (\\\w*) would be a combination that is repeated one or more times only I dont know what the () should be.

 

[icrf]

Remember, a * means zero or more, a + means one or more, so (\\\w*)* would match all of the following:
''
'\'
'\word'
'\a\a\a\a\aaaaa\aaa\a\a\\\'

If you want to match just a single \ and a single \w repeatedly, use (\\\w)+ or (\\\w)* depending.

But really, unless this is academic, there's a slew of RTF modules on cpan that have been tested and thought out a great deal already.

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[cntr]

To match \bold\par :
[tt](\\\w+)+[/tt]