[asterisk-users] Inquiry : Asterisk hash key

[Alex Balashov]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Saturday 01 August 2009 00:42:05 hadi motamedi wrote:
>> Can you please let us know how to configure Asterisk to recognize
>> extensions starting with the hash key ?
> 
> There's no need to do anything special.  As the hash key does not start
> comments in Asterisk configuration files (which sounds like your concern),
> everything works fine when you start an extension with a hash key.

Oh!  A hash KEY as in a hash/pound character ('#')!  A BUTTON!

And here I was spinning my head around trying to figure out what sort of 
hash algorithm is involved here, and what could be special about an 
extension whose name serves as a key into some sort of nearly-O(1) 
association and/or mapping scheme.

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