On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Marco Bernardini wrote:

> At 18.40 12/04/2000 -0500, Michael wrote:
> >> So there is no way to have the range 20..31 (or the more usual 128..255) in
> >> a single line?
> >
> >Nope.  Regexp knows nothing whatsoever about numbers, just strings.  So
> ranges
> >just can't be done nicely.  Sad but true.
> 
> I see!
> But this seems to work fine for 0..127 range:
> HOSTALIAS REGEXP:^194\.243\.156\.. luna.it
> HOSTALIAS REGEXP:^194\.243\.156\.[1..9]. luna.it
> HOSTALIAS REGEXP:^194\.243\.156\.1[0..1]. luna.it
> HOSTALIAS REGEXP:^194\.243\.156\.12[0..7] luna.it
> 

This can't be right. The first line catches anything matching 194.243.156.?*
(in the sense of non-regexp matching).

-- 
Stephen Turner               http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
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