[asterisk-users] Issue with (pattern) matching extension

[Philip A. Prindeville]

On 04/29/2010 12:09 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2010 11:46:39 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> On 4/29/10 4:22 AM, Jim Dickenson wrote:
>>     
>>> I banged my head with a like problem a few days ago.
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> exten =>  _fn-.,1,NoOp(ISN: ${DIALSTATUS})
>>>>>           
>>> n does not mean the letter n in a pattern it has a special meaning!
>>>       
>> That's capital N, isn't it?
>>     
> No, it's both cases.
>
>   
>> Also, the prefix "_stdexten-." seems to work fine in the [stdexten]
>> context, so I'm not sure what's different here.
>>     
> Actually, it probably doesn't.  Testing fail.
>
>   

That's highly inconsistent, then.

Why does the 'n' in stdexten (or the 'x' for that matter) match a
regular letter in that case, but not in the freenum case?

Doesn't quite make it 'deterministic' if you have to test it to see what
it's going to do.