asterisk users - Feb 2008 - Matching "+" characters in dial plan

Can someone please explain how to match a + character in a dial plan (so 
that I can swap it for the "00" country escape code).

In Europe at least the + is a common shortcut for the international 
prefix (which is "00" in my country).  However, my trunk chokes on the
+
character and all my speed-dials are setup with a + at the start of 
them... Trying to fix the phone rather than the addressbook...

Thanks

Ed W

Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 00:18 +0000 schrieb Ed W:
> Can someone please explain how to match a + character in a dial plan (so 
> that I can swap it for the "00" country escape code).
> 
> In Europe at least the + is a common shortcut for the international 
> prefix (which is "00" in my country).  However, my trunk chokes
on the +
> character and all my speed-dials are setup with a + at the start of 
> them... Trying to fix the phone rather than the addressbook...
You should get away with

exten => _+[1-9].,1,Goto(00${EXTEN:1},1)

If you had any special use for triple-0 numbers (as we do), you should
afaik also be able to use

exten => _+.,1,Goto(00${EXTEN:1},1)

We do not allow "+0" numbers though because that would contradict the
meaning of a "000" number in our setup. Generally
"+AABBBCCC" is dialled
as "00AABBBCCC", as international phone call, through our outward
phone
provider without them noticing any weird + signs.

BR
Anselm

I made up some dialplan rules to strip the '+' and replace with the
00...

Something like:

exten => _+XX.,1,Dial(zap/g1/00${EXTEN:1})

PaulH


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 00:18 +0000, Ed W wrote:
> Can someone please explain how to match a + character in a dial plan (so 
> that I can swap it for the "00" country escape code).
> 
> In Europe at least the + is a common shortcut for the international 
> prefix (which is "00" in my country).  However, my trunk chokes
on the +
> character and all my speed-dials are setup with a + at the start of 
> them... Trying to fix the phone rather than the addressbook...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ed W
> 
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On Wednesday 06 February 2008 18:18:12 Ed W wrote:
> Can someone please explain how to match a + character in a dial plan (so
> that I can swap it for the "00" country escape code).
>
> In Europe at least the + is a common shortcut for the international
> prefix (which is "00" in my country).  However, my trunk chokes
on the +
> character and all my speed-dials are setup with a + at the start of
> them... Trying to fix the phone rather than the addressbook...
exten => _+.,1,Goto(00${EXTEN:1},1)

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Tilghman