[asterisk-users] Realtime semi-colon

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 16 September 2010 07:50:33 Steve Howes wrote:
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 12:56, Andrew Thomas wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to send * a semi-colon from a realtime database.  I
> > know that * uses the semi-colon as a 'seperator' - but I need to be able
> > to use one in a command.  I know I can use \; in the non-realtime
> > configs, but this doesn't work in realtime.
>
> in /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf
>
> [globals]
> SEMICOLON=\;
>
> Then use ${SEMICOLON} in realitime.... Hacky, but it's what I'm using at
> the moment..

If you use SVN (upcoming 1.4.37, 1.6.2.14, or 1.8.0), you can encode
semicolons in the database as the literal string "^3B".

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