Error "Create a concrete instance!"

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Published on 2010-04-02T21:26:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 21:33 UTC
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Hey All,

I've got another problem in the same code... I'm getting this error: *** initialization method -initWithFormat:locale:arguments: cannot be sent to an abstract object of class NSString_RegEx: Create a concrete instance!

But I don't understand the error or what I should do...

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