Hiya, I am trying to allow any amount of characters to go on multiple lines of a text area whilst using Parse::Recdescent, kind of pattern matching, but am having trouble. It only allows one character per line. How can i overcome this? The problem is the "text: /(.\s)*/" bit. Here is what i have. Cheers

my $mw3= $mw->Button(-text=>"Check brackets",
-command => sub{

my $grammar = q {
startrule: open text close

open: "<"

text: /(.\s)*/

close: ">"
};

my $parser = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);

print defined($parser->startrule($mw2->get ("1.0", "500.0")))
? "NO ERROR\n" : "ERROR";
})->pack(-side=>'left');

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