[Asterisk-Users] Channel name (and substring)

[Sean Kennedy]

Thomas Andrews wrote:

>How do I get the bit like "IAX2/white_phone" in extensions.conf eg from
>pre-defined variables or variants thereof ?
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>What I *do* get is strings like this "IAX2/white_phone at white_phone-4"
>from ${CHANNEL}, but that's the full channel name.
>
>What am I missing here ?
>
>Thanks,
>Thomas
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This should help:http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variables

Look especially at the substring section.

Sean