[Asterisk-Users] Extensions beginning with *

[Warren Burstein]

Arik Funke wrote:

> can anybody tell me how to create an extension that starts with a *? 
> The expression matching works well if * is embedded in numbers but if 
> the extension starts with *, it is not executed but extension s 
> instead. Is there another way besides using a lot of if statements in 
> the s extension?

This works for me on asterisk-1.0.9 dialong on an analog phone.