Friday, September 14, 2007

Re: [asterisk-users] Can Asterisk match a literal "*" in extensions.conf

On Friday 14 September 2007 11:39:40 Anthony Messina wrote:
> I am working on getting freenum.org ISN/ITAD numbers integrated into my
> exiting dialplan however I am having trouble getting the extension matches
> to work "as expected."
>
> I would like to be able to do something like:
> exten => _X.*.,1,Macro(isn-outbound...)

The problem you're seeing is that the period is a short-circuit operator. It
says "if you match everything so far and at least one more character, then
you have a match, no need to go any further." You CANNOT match past a
'.'.

--
Tilghman

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