[asterisk-users] Matching "+" at the beginning of the line

[Eugen Rogoza]

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 08:14 -0700, Steve Langstaff wrote:
> I came across an issue where the user interface I was using (FreePBX?) to enter expressions was silently swallowing backslash characters (this wasn't regexp, but my dialplan had to add a SIP header with a semicolon in - that was falling foul of the comment character matching for the user interface, so I had to escape it, but that was being stripped elsewere!)
> 
> So I wanted the following in the dial plan:
> 
> Blah;blah
> 
> But I had to enter:
> 
> Blah\\;blah
> 
> And when this was displayed on the user interface it was shown as:
> 
> Blah\;blah
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

You are right, it looks like the backslashes are being silently
swallowed, but adding extra ones doesn't help either :-)

It cannot even match the backslash itself (\\). By the way, using your
suggestions, one should type "\\\" to match a backslash :-)

Eugen