[asterisk-dev] number lookup functions

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Steve Underwood wrote:

> To get this effect things like chan_zap need to call 2 of the above 
> functions. This seems rather inefficient. Is there a good reason why a 
> three way function does not exist? Is it just that nobody ever bothered 
> to code one?

I would suspect it is the latter. It certainly seems to me to be a good 
idea, unless there are so many cases that want 'exact match only' that 
looking for partial matches if there is no exact match would be a 
performance hit. Presumably all that would be required is an input mask 
to the function to tell it what sorts of matches are allowed :-)