How's your C knowledge?

You can find the RTF specification at http://www.wotsit.org/ (like you can most any file format a programmer might need help with), and it includes a sample c reader (Appendix A).

It doesn't look like it'd be too hard to develop a grammar, although it looks like it'd be lots easier to just develop a parser ;)

Anybody looking for a project this smells like a good one.

update:

If you're looking for strategy, try looking at a Latex parser, cause LateX and RTF look very similar if you ask me.

I'm suprised there isn't a opensource library already out there to do this (i know there is a non-free one that looks like it'd be useful).

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In reply to Re: Parse::RecDescent grammar for RTF by PodMaster
in thread Parse::RecDescent grammar for RTF by Courage

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