[asterisk-users] Matching *, + and # in the dialplan

[Karl Fife]

"Steve Murphy" <murf at digium.com> wrote:
> People have voiced this before; but the cut-down version of RE's that
> the matching algorithms allow are fairly fast, both in the new and
> the old pattern matching algorithms.
> 

Steve

Your explanation is clear and it seems like a good design choice to
exclude support for regular expressions, but what seems odd (maybe a bug
in fact) is the specific exclusion of characters +, # and *. 

It sounds like you're saying:
exten => [0-9*#+].,... is invalid, therefore not a bug, and that only
numeric parameters such as:
exten => [0-6].,... would be valid. 

If this is correct could you please explain the proper way to match any
extension beginning with +
such as 
 '+13129842314'
 without also matching:
 'i'

Thanks for your input Steve!

-Karl



> What extension the following:
> '3129842314'
> '*989'
> '+13129842314'
>
> BUT does not match:
> 'i'
> 'james'


I'd like to see a wildchard character that matches 
Can support for those characters be added without