[asterisk-users] Macro arguments seperator

[Leif Madsen]

If I understand this, you can do it with the pbx_realtime=1.4 section in 
the [compat] header of asterisk.conf.

I found this information in the UPGRADE-1.6.txt file... funny enough. 
Fifth paragraph:

* The delimiter passed to applications has been changed to the comma 
(','), as that is what people are used to using within extensions.conf. 
  If you are using realtime extensions, you will need to translate your 
existing dialplan to use this separator.  To use a literal comma, you 
need merely to escape it with a backslash ('\').  Another possible side 
effect is that you may need to remove the obscene level of backslashing 
that was necessary for the dialplan to work correctly in 1.4 and 
previous versions.  This should make writing dialplans less painful in 
the future, albeit with the pain of a one-time conversion.  If you would 
like to avoid this conversion immediately, set pbx_realtime=1.4 in the 
[compat] section of asterisk.conf.  After transitioning, set 
pbx_realtime=1.6 in the same section.

Leif Madsen.
http://www.leifmadsen.com
http://www.asteriskdocs.org

Morten Isaksen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am in the process of upgrading our 1.2 servers to 1.6.
> 
> We have a lot of realtime extensions with app=Macro and
> appdata=stdexten|080512|SIP/080512
> 
> But this does not work in 1.6. It is expecting , and not | as the
> argument seperator. If I change the | to , then it does not work in
> 1.2.
> 
> Is there any backwards compatible switch you can enable in 1.6, so it
> accepts | as a argument seperator in 1.6?
>