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

[Martin Pycko]

It's fixed now.

> what's the intended behaviour of ${variable:a:b}?
it's the same as substring application

> given that ${exten} = 501234
> until yesterday ${exten:2} would give '1234'
and it does now

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> with current CVS ${exten:2} is '50' while ${exten:2:4} is '1234'
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> how do I just strip characters/digits in front of the variable without
> specifying a length?
you can do ${variable:a} or ${variable:a:1000} :)

Martin
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> I was doing things like:
> exten => _00.,1,Goto(context,${EXTEN:2},1)
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> thanks,
> lele
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