[Asterisk-Users] extensions and regular expressions ( probablyan easy question )

[Sean Kennedy]

Steve,

Yeah, that's what I've been doing, but I was hoping to make it a little 
clearer in the dial plan.

Ah well, you win some and lose some.  Thanks!

Sean

Steve Totaro wrote:

>You just need separate extensions.
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>>Hi Dan,
>>
>>Thanks for the info, but what I'm after is the ability to match a
>>digit/character 0 or 1 times at the beginning of the string.  If I'm
>>reading your example right, it'll match anything starting with 866,
>>which doesn't work for me.  I am trying to match:
>>
>>18661234567 and 8661234567
>>
>>Sean
>>
>>ps:  The pdf doesn't have a good explaination of this either, although
>>it occurs to me that this might not be possible with * if I'm having
>>such a hard time finding it.
>>Daniel Wright wrote:
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>>>Sean Kennedy wrote:
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>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>I'm having a hard time finding information related to the regular
>>>>expressions that can be used in a dialplan, specifically as an
>>>>extension.  For example, I have an 800 number which I'd like to
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>jump
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>>>>directly to if my users dial it, instead of going over my pstn
>>>>termination.  Currently, it looks like this:
>>>>
>>>>exten => 8661234567,1,Goto(800-in)
>>>>
>>>>However, I'd like 1866123456 to match as well.  I can't find in the
>>>>wiki or sample configs how to say "match this 0 or 1 times".
>>>>Can anybody provide a link that would go over this?  Again, I've
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>been
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>>>>digging through the wiki, but I seem to be missing it.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Sean
>>>>
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>>>You could do it like this:
>>>
>>>exten => _866.,1,GoTo(800-in)
>>>
>>>The period means match one or more characters.
>>>
>>>You can find reference to expressions and how they work  in this pdf
>>>book http://www.nufone.net/downloads/asteriskdocs/AsteriskTFOT.zip
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>      
>>>
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