On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Mohr wrote:

> My brain is not functioning at the moment, so I need help converting
> the following relative to HOSTALIAS.
> 
> Hostname received             Hostname alias
> ================      ============
> wa4-7-38.aut.ac.nz            wa4.aut.ac.nz
> we707-157-41.aut.ac.nz        we707.aut.ac.nz
> wwlgp-13.aut.ac.nz            wwlgp.aut.ac.nz
> wc609.aut.ac.nz               wc609.aut.ac.nz 
> 
> As you can see, it's a simple extraction of characters before the
> hyphen.  However, since other domains use our server, I only want to
> alias the ones for our domain. 
> 

I don't think you need a regexp. Just try
  HOSTALIAS *-*.aut.ac.nz $1.aut.ac.nz

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