[asterisk-dev] Parsing in Asterisk

[Leif Madsen]

On Monday 19 March 2007 10:28:11 Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Leif Madsen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 13:25:11 Steve Murphy wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 14:33 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> >>> exten => s,n,Set(ODBC_TEST3(foo)=123\,\\"456\,789\\"\,012)
>
> What I miss most is "real" strings as you know them from other
> languages - quoted in single or double quotes with escaping
> only being necessary for the quotes themselves (and maybe
> chars in hex notation).
>
> exten => s,n,Set(ODBC_TEST3(foo) = 123, "456,789", 012 )
>
> And it's really unusal to *write* to functions. Something
> like this would be my favorite:
>
> ODBC_TEST3( "foo", [123, "456,789", 012] )

Actually I would disagree with that. The format for writing a value to a 
function is quite logical if you understand other parts of Asterisk dialplan 
logic (i.e. it's intuitive). The format you proposed, to me, is confusing and 
counter intuitive.

Leif Madsen.