[asterisk-dev] Re: [svn-commits] murf: trunk r41283 - /trunk/main/pbx.c

[Johansson Olle E]

30 aug 2006 kl. 17.10 skrev John Lange:

> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:38 -0400, Jared Smith wrote:
>>   (I know what you're thinking -- I'd like to be able to use regex
>> matches too -- but that's probably overkill at this stage.)
>
> Its inevitable that Asterisk will need regex matching at some  
> point. The
> current matching system is heavily tilted toward numeric usernames and
> extensions but more and more we will begin to see email style address.
>
> Already the existing system has some limitations; for example it  
> can not
> match a variable number of digits. I had a friend who was trying to
> implement an ISDN lookup for library books (ISDNs are variable length)
> but had problems because of the limitations on the matching.
>
> If I can throw my 2c in; I think the existing system should be  
> preserved
> for backwards compatibility so any new system should have a different
> prefix. The natural choice for regext would seem to be "/"
>
> exten => /[1-9][0-9]....
>

This is a proposal I came up with in May 2005:
http://edvina.net/asterisk/alphanumericextensions.pdf

The big change is that we now have two channels being utf8
and that means that Asterisk will have to become utf8...

/Olle