9[18] will match either "91" or "98". - Thanks, Chris On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 12:29 -0400, Kirkwood, David A. wrote: > 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 -- 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