[asterisk-users] Any Way to Get # Functionality in DISA

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Yuan LIU wrote:
>> From: Steve Murphy <murf at digium.com>
>> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:11:50 -0700
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:48 -0800, Yuan LIU wrote:
>> > >From: "Yuan LIU" <yliu11 at hotmail.com>
>> > >Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:28:03 -0800
>> > >Not necessarily.  You only have to program your existing context to 
>> handle
>> > >trailing # when it comes along.  For example, this simplistic example
>> > >ignores trailing #'s:
>> > >
>> > >exten => _Z., 1, GotoIf($[${EXTEN:-1} = #]?${EXTEN:1},1:2)
>> > >exten => _Z., 2, whatever...
>> >
>> > Or simply add
>> >
>> > exten => _Z.[#*].,1, Goto($[${EXTEN} : \([0-9]*\)],1)
>> >
>> > to an existing context to ignore anything after first # or *.
>>
>> Nope. The "." can only be at the end. It matches all remaining chars.
>> This is not a real fancy pattern matcher. I've seen all sorts of requests
>> for a regex there, but the complexity of a regex state-machine in that
>> code is staggering!
> 
> Thanks for pointing out, Steve - just spent two sleepless hours 
> swallowing my own pill:-)  Well Asterisk has one regex engine already, 
> then that's alright.

DISA is used to emulate picking up an analog phone and dialing out.  If 
you don't want to emulate that, then use something else like Read().