[asterisk-users] Can Asterisk match a literal "*" in extensions.conf

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Anthony Messina wrote:
> I am working on getting freenum.org ISN/ITAD numbers integrated into my 
> exiting dialplan however I am having trouble getting the extension matches to 
> work "as expected."
> 
> I would like to be able to do something like:
> exten => _X.*.,1,Macro(isn-outbound...)
> 
> Where I would expect that any extension that starts with at least one number, 
> but includes a literal "*" followed by 1 or more numbers would match.
> 
> This is not the case, and it matches any extension that starts with a number.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.

. must ONLY be the LAST character in a pattern match.