[Asterisk-Users] Cut leading digit?

[Derek Whitten]

try something like this.. the EXTEN:1 strips the leading 8 off

exten => _8.,s,1,Dial(IAX2/user at provider/${EXTEN:1},60,Ttr)



On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 05:43, Rich Adamson wrote:
> Using a spa3000 with asterisk cvs head, and the spa3k is config'ed with 
> a dialplan that essentially routes any call starting with an "8" to 
> asterisk. All other US 7 and 10 digit calls, 911, etc, route via the 
> spa3k's fxo port.
> 
> Is there a way in extensions.conf to:
>  - inspect the dialed exten number,
>  - if first digit is "8", drop the 8,
>  - continue through each "include => ...",
>  - dial the remaining $extn digits
> 
> The number of elements in extensions.conf is somewhat lengthy, so 
> looking for a way to do the above one time early in asterisk's
> search through the various dialplan elements.
> 
> I guess an alternative might be to strip the "8" in the spa3k before
> it sends the call to asterisk, but I've not found a way to do that
> as yet.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
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