asterisk users - Aug 2005 - Extensions beginning with *

Hi,
can anybody tell me how to create an extension that starts with a *? The 
expression matching works well if * is embedded in numbers but if the 
extension starts with *, it is not executed but extension s instead. Is 
there another way besides using a lot of if statements in the s extension?

Thanks,
Arik

Arik Funke wrote:
> can anybody tell me how to create an extension that starts with a *? 
> The expression matching works well if * is embedded in numbers but if 
> the extension starts with *, it is not executed but extension s 
> instead. Is there another way besides using a lot of if statements in 
> the s extension?
This works for me on asterisk-1.0.9 dialong on an analog phone.