Yep, thanks again. I fixed the regexp,  but I also hadn't realized that "|" is not a special character within brackets, so I fixed it to the not-really-correct but working:<br><br>HOST=%^db[1|2|3|6][1|2|3].bo3.*  <br>
<br>which works but has extraneous characters, it should be:<br><br>HOST=%^db[1236][123].bo3.*<br><br>or to get exactly what I had before:<br><br>HOST=%^db(11|12|13|21|22|23|31|32|33|61|62).bo3.*<br><br>Although for our particular purposes I could also just do:<br>
<br>HOST=%^db[1-6][0-9].bo3.* <br><br>since that matches all the present and future dbN.bo3 hosts except db0-db9 , which are special<br><br>educational day!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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HOST=%^db[11|12|13|21|22|23|31|32|33|61|62].bo3.*<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>