Hello lispers, 

This may be a silly question. I'm trying to parse some text 
files. After several tries I couldn't make the following regular 
expression work properly:

cl-user(79): (match-regexp "3\\{1,4\\}" "333" :return :string)
nil
cl-user(80): 

It always returns nil. I'm running ACL6.0 on solaris 2.8.

Is there something wrong with my sintax? or am I applying the
concept wrongly?


Many thanks 
Arturo

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