[Asterisk-Users] ${variable:a:b}

[Brancaleoni Matteo]

the handler for ${exten:2} is commented out from current
cvs (pbx.c line 749).
I think that mark is adding substring support with double :
syntax, but that broke the single : syntax.
You can use ${EXTEN-1} ,that works, although is
deprecated.

matteo.

Il mar, 2003-03-18 alle 18:49, Lele Forzani ha scritto:
> what's the intended behaviour of ${variable:a:b}?
> 
> 
> given that ${exten} = 501234
> 
> 
> until yesterday ${exten:2} would give '1234'
> 
> with current CVS ${exten:2} is '50' while ${exten:2:4} is '1234'
> 
> how do I just strip characters/digits in front of the variable without 
> specifying a length?
> 
> 
> I was doing things like:
> exten => _00.,1,Goto(context,${EXTEN:2},1)
> 
> thanks,
> lele
> 
> 
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