[Asterisk-Users] want to set a var in sip.conf

[Eric Wieling]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:46, Eric Wieling wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 23:26, Randy Bush wrote:
> > i have extensions in locations across a number of telco area codes.
> > when someone in seattle picks up and dials 91234567, it would be
> > nice to transform it to 92061234567.  i would prefer not to have
> > an extension context per area code.  it would be cool to be able
> > to set a variable in the sip.conf bit for each phone with it's
> > geographic default area code.
> 
> I assume that each SIP phone will have Caller*ID that includes their
> area code?  If so it would be pretty trivial to use an AGI script to
> extract the area code from the Caller*ID of the phone making the call
> and use app_goto to jump to $AreaCode . $Exten or something like that.

Or you could actually do it simpler by doing something line exten =>
NXXXXXX,1,GoTo(${CALLERIDNUN:-7)${EXTEN},1) but see README.variables for
the correct syntax of chopping off the last 7 digits of a variable. 
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