[asterisk-users] Can Asterisk match a literal "*" in extensions.conf

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Fri Sep 14 15:35:47 CDT 2007


On Friday 14 September 2007 12:37:11 pm Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 11:39:40 Anthony Messina wrote:
> > I am working on getting freenum.org ISN/ITAD numbers integrated into my
> > exiting dialplan however I am having trouble getting the extension
> > matches to work "as expected."
> >
> > I would like to be able to do something like:
> > exten => _X.*.,1,Macro(isn-outbound...)
>
> The problem you're seeing is that the period is a short-circuit operator. 
> It says "if you match everything so far and at least one more character,
> then you have a match, no need to go any further."  You CANNOT match past a
> '.'.

Thank you all.  I knew I wasn't nuts, but this is the infomation being posted 
at http://freenum.org/cookbook/

I'll just have to add a prefix.  I was hoping to avoid that.

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