[Asterisk-Dev] Re: BOUNTY: app_hangup from exten => h

[Rich Adamson]

> On April 14, 2005 11:48 am, Josh Roberson wrote:
> > I would have to disagree with you here, since it is (or should be)
> > widely known that _. is a wildcard match, and will match ANYTHING.  This
> > behaviour is GOOD, when you just need to capture anything that is sent
> > into a particular context, and parse it.  Sure, ruling out _. would be
> > great for newbies, but some of us experienced folk use this for more
> > than just numeric extensions - we actually determine, and work around
> > some of the system extensions using this operator.
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> _. should match ANY **NORMAL** extension.  It should never match o,s,h,i,a,t.  
> That is not how it is now, but IMO that is how it should be.  I can't think 
> of a single valid reason to have _. match any of those.

I'd have to agree with you 100%. Stick to your guns.