[asterisk-users] Unexpected dialplan match

[Jason Parker]

On 12/20/2010 11:35 AM, Daniel Tryba wrote:
> I was wondering why *foo at default should match '_*[0-9a-zA-Z].*0.'
> in 1.6.13. Who is making the parse error, * or me?
>
> CLI>  dialplan show  *foo at default
> '_*[0-9a-zA-Z].*0.' =>
>       1. NoOp(${EXTEN})                             [pbx_config]
>       2. Set(accountcode=${CUT(EXTEN,*,2)})         [pbx_config]
>       3. Set(extension=${CUT(EXTEN,*,3)})           [pbx_config]
>       4. Set(CDR(accountcode)=${accountcode})       [pbx_config]
>       7. ResetCDR()                                 [pbx_config]
>       8. ...
>

'.' stops further matching.  Your extension ends up being (effectively) 
shortened to _*[0-9a-zA-Z].