asterisk users - Nov 2007 - modifying a dialed exension before dialplan processing

I have a phone (a panasonic globalrange phone) which always sends a
fully qualified phone number.  That is, for a local Canadian number,
even if I key in 6135551212 it actually sends to asterisk
01116135551212.  This means of course, along with "normal" phones I
end
up having twice as many extensions for outdialed numbers.

Is there any way I could canonicalize this down to the more normal
NXXNXXXXXX format before I process through all of my dialplan rules?
Effectively it means being able to alter ${EXTEN}.

Is this doable in any way?

b.

I have no idea if this would work :

exten => _0111NXXNXXXXXX,1,Set(x=${EXTEN:4})
exten => _0111NXXNXXXXXX,n,Goto(${x},1)
exten => _0111NXXNXXXXXX,n,NoOp( Sorry it didn't work ! )
exten => _0111NXXNXXXXXX,n,Hangup()
;
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,NoOp( OMG, It worked ! )
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,n,NoOp( continue like other calls )

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  On Nov 16, 2007 7:38 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I have a phone (a panasonic globalrange phone) which always sends a
> fully qualified phone number.  That is, for a local Canadian number,
> even if I key in 6135551212 it actually sends to asterisk
> 01116135551212.  This means of course, along with "normal" phones
I end
> up having twice as many extensions for outdialed numbers.
>
> Is there any way I could canonicalize this down to the more normal
> NXXNXXXXXX format before I process through all of my dialplan rules?
> Effectively it means being able to alter ${EXTEN}.
>
> Is this doable in any way?
>
> b.
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On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 20:14 -0500, Baji Panchumarti
wrote:
> 
>  just out of curiosity are you dialing out of * on an analog
>  line or are you terminating thru a sip provider,
Both for now.  I am in transition from analog to a VSP (via IAX in
fact).

I know where you are going with this, yes, it seems my VSP will take a
1NXXNXXXXXX even for numbers which are local, and we are in 10 digit
dialling land here now, so much of this "should I dial 1 or not" goes
away when the POTS line goes away.

Cheers,
b.

On Nov 17, 2007 8:30 PM, Brian J. Murrell  wrote:
> Both for now.  I am in transition from analog to a VSP (via IAX in
> fact).
>
> I know where you are going with this, yes, it seems my VSP will
> take a 1NXXNXXXXXX even for numbers which are local, and
> we are in 10 digit dialling land here now, so much of this
> "should I dial 1 or not" goes away when the POTS line goes away.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
 my sip provider takes  10 digits no matter where I want to dial in
 US & Can.

 A few years ago, I used to have to deal with 7-digit local,
 10-digit local & 11 digits LD dialing on analog lines, not
 fun :-)

 -baji.

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