[asterisk-dev] zero-or-more match

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Jared Smith wrote:

> We'd obviously need to set priority of one type of pattern matching over
> the other, so that people have some sort of expectation how to structure
> their extensions.  It's already hard enough for most people to know
> which of the following would match if the user dialed extension 822 in
> the context below...  Let's make sure we set clear rules for precedence,
> or we'll only make matters worse.  
> 
> [patterns]
> exten => _NXX      ,1,NoOp(1)
> exten => _[1-8]22  ,1,NoOp(2)
> exten => _[a-h]1X  ,1,NoOp(3)
> exten => _X.       ,1,NoOp(4)
> exten => _X2.      ,1,NoOp(5)
> exten => _[0-9*#]11,1,NoOp(6)

If it's not (2), we fail.

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