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

[Matt Riddell (IT)]

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John Lange wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 10:31 -0500, Steven Critchfield wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I think you meant ISBN. And variable number of digits is supported. You
>> just need to know how to determine when it is shorter or longer and
>> write your dialplan as such. 
> 
> LOL, ya, ISBN. Apparently I've exceeded the maximum acronym storage
> limit of my brain.
> 
>> Think about it, in dialplans, most people have short internal extensions
>> that can be dialed, and longer PSTN local and even longer PSTN LD
>> numbers that can all be handled just fine. 
> 
> I'll ask for the specific example. I think it had to do with terminating
> with a "#". So:
> 
> exten => _X.#,1,....
> 
> Does not work. Everything after the "." is ignored and you are forced to
> rely on the digit timeout for asterisk to start doing anything. This is
> exceptionally annoying in this case because the timeouts are long to
> allow people to enter a difficult number.

Or even:

  -= Info about application 'Read' =-

[Synopsis]
Read a variable

[Description]
  Read(variable[|filename][|maxdigits][|option][|attempts][|timeout])

Reads a #-terminated string of digits a certain number of times from the
user in to the given variable.

and the Goto app maybe?

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Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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