I'm trying to decipher a pythom script someone gave me for administration and I can't figure out what the symbol 9[18] means in a regular expression as in re.compile('MezsageXYZ,9[18]\d\d') I have most of the rest of it figured but I can't find this in the Python book I'm using. All help is appreciated, David A. Kirkwood SAIC david.a.kirkwood@xxxxxxxx kirkwoodd@xxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html