  A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the tau into one charged
lepton and two charged hadrons has been performed using $221.4
\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected at an $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy around
10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring. In all 14 decay
modes considered, the numbers of events found in data are compatible with the
background expectations. Upper limits on the branching fractions are set in the
range $(0.7-4.8)\times 10^{-7}$ at 90% confidence level. All results are
preliminary.
