[Asterisk-Users] Local vs. toll Dial Plan

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:44:14PM -0700, Ira wrote:
> At 10:33 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote:
> >> exten => s,n,set(EXCHANGES=310323805714)
> >> exten => s,n(begin),set(TEST=${EXCHANGES:0:3)
> >> exten => s,n,set(EXCHANGES=${EXCHANGES:3)
> >> exten => s,n,gotoif($["${TEST}" = ""]?passed)
> >> exten => s,n,gotoif($[${TEST} = ${EXTEN?3}:gotone]
> >> exten => s,n,gotoif($[${TEST} = ${EXTEN?1:3}:gotone]
> >> exten => s,n,goto(begin)
> >
> >Why would you re-implement the dialplan logic in dialplan?
> >
> >exten => 310323805714,1,NoOp
> >exten => 310324445714,1,NoOp
> >exten => 310323804444,1,NoOp
> >exten => 310323444714,1,NoOp
> >
> >exten => _X.,2,; the rest of the dialplan
> >
> >The block of NoOps for each "good" extension (or pattern of extensions)
> >is what you maintain in a separate file and #include or in a database.
> 
> Because he was looking for a way to test a dial prefix against a 
> list, or that's what I though he wanted. This would let him test an 
> area code against the list in EXCHANGES and do something based on that 
> result.

I did mention usig patterns:

exten => _310.,1,NoOp

It can get tricky if several pattern cover the same range. But I odn't
believe that this is the case.

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