[asterisk-dev] Better pattern matching

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Jared Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:44 -0500, John Lange wrote:
>> Searching the archives I can see that better pattern matching has been
>> discussed a number of times.
>>
>> There have even been patches submitted and discussions about how there
>> are regexp libraries available under BSD style license that could be
>> incorporated into Asterisk.
>>
>> Yet, nothing ever makes it into the released code.
> 
> Yes, I've been one of the people who have been more vocal than most
> about this.  I really think it's a good idea to be a little more
> flexible in our pattern matching ability.  That being said, I can see
> where the Asterisk developers are coming from too -- they're worried
> that this will severely impact the time it takes for Asterisk to do
> pattern matching.  The current pattern matching syntax works fairly well
> for numeric extensions, but is pretty difficult work with if you trying
> to do pattern matching on names or alphanumeric extensions.  For
> example, try coming up with a pattern match that'll match the name Nancy
> (either upper or lower case) followed by two digits.  It becomes even
> more difficult when dealing with letters that fall outside the English
> alphabet.

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