[asterisk-dev] an easy way to deal with/without leading "1" ?

[sean darcy]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up dialplans to deal with 800 dialing through a different
> channel than regular long distance in the US.
>
> The regular long distance is set up so users can but don't have to
> dial one. That's pretty easy, just one more exten statement. But it's
> a pain dealing with all the 8xx area codes that are toll free.
>
> I tried
>
> exten=>exten => _!877NXXXXXX,2,Dial(${pstnline}/ww1${EXTEN:-10})
>
> but that matches everything. I'd hoped it would only match strings
> that had zero or more characters, followed by the 877 pattern.
>
> sean
>

Sorry. Meant to post to users :(

sean