[asterisk-users] . (period): Wildcard match; matches one or more characters

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

An example similar to one that exists in many dialplans:

exten => _011.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN})

which would match any international number as dialed from North America 
because, depending on what country you'd be calling, the number of 
digits after the 011 would differ.  As such, putting the period after 
the 011 says 'match 011 followed by one or more digits".  To use the 
wildcard characters, 'X', 'N', or '.',  I had to also prefix my 
extension with '_', which enables pattern matching.

Mojo

bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> In the outbound, I read in the documents the Wildcard
> match "by using the . (period)", but I did not
> understand how Wildcard will work (like what)? As I
> know that Wildcard is a term used with the Diguim TDM
> card (FXO and FXS), so what is the relation between
> such cards and the matching in the dial plan?
>
> Any help?
>
> Regards
> Bilal
>
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