help with Regexps

[Santiago Mejia]

I have a file that has these three types of entries (they all appear in
the beginning of the line).

1. %\card{\word{Mutter}}{mom, mommy, mother, nut}
2. \card{\atl{die} \word{Erkenntnis}}{cognition, cognizance, perception}
3. \card{\word{Jünglinge}}{teens, younglings}

And I want to be able to use (search-forward-regexp ???) within a
function to find only 3. (and not 1. and 2).

When I try: (search-forward-regexp "^\\card{\\word{[A-Z]"), emacs
complains: Search failed: "^\\card{\\word{[A-Z]" (in fact, even
(search-forward-regexp "^\\card") fails to find anything).  What am I
making wrong?

I could also solve the issue by excluding a particular string
(in this case "\atl") from a search.  How can one do this?

I read through the info, and tried searching on Google, but I was not
able to find a solution to either attempt.  It is probably there
(probably even in the info I read), but I was not able to sort it out.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Santiago.

P.D.  I tried posting this in the newsgroups, but it seems that there
was a problem, since I do not see my question appearing there.