[2]: Regular expression error: pcre_compile() 'nothing to repeat' in expression

The following policy:

<pre>
vars:
linux::
"limits[glob-dash-nofile]" string => "* - nofile 30000", policy => "free";
"limits[app-soft-nproc]" string => "app soft nproc 16357", policy => "free";

</pre>

Produces the following error:

2014-03-27T07:45:45-0700 error: /default/build_linux_limits_conf/files/'/etc/security/limits.final'/default/append_if_no_line/insert_lines/': - nofile 30000'
[2]: Regular expression error: pcre_compile() 'nothing to repeat' in expression '* - nofile 30000' (offset: 0)

2014-03-27T07:45:45-0700 error: /default/build_linux_limits_conf/files/'/etc/security/limits.final'/default/append_if_no_line/insert_lines/': - nofile 30000'
[2]: Regular expression error: pcre_compile() 'nothing to repeat' in expression '* - nofile 30