asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Removing "-" (Dash) from Dialed Numbers

I am trying to enable dial-by-email by using LDAPget to query an Active
Directory server.  I've got it retrieving the phone number fine.
Unforunately, the numbers stored in active directory are either in the
format:  (xxx) xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxx-xxxx.   Is there any way to parse
characters out of the dialed phone number so that I only end up with digits
(remove spaces, parenthesis and dashes)?   From there, my outbound routes
can take care of where to send the call.

 

Help is always appreciated! :-)  

 

Thank you,

Scott Miller

 

 

 

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Scott Miller wrote:
> I am trying to enable dial-by-email by using LDAPget to query an Active
> Directory server.  I?ve got it retrieving the phone number fine. 
> Unforunately, the numbers stored in active directory are either in the
> format:  (xxx) xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxx-xxxx.   Is there any way to parse
> characters out of the dialed phone number so that I only end up with
> digits (remove spaces, parenthesis and dashes)?   From there, my
> outbound routes can take care of where to send the call.
> 
>  
> 
> Help is always appreciated! J 
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Scott Miller
How about the Cut application (depreciated)

<http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+cut>

or the CUT function

<http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+func+cut>

depending on which version you are running?

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Not very elegant, but:
 
exten => 1,1,SetVar(MyNumber=780-555-1212)
exten => 1,2,SetVar(AreaCode=${MyNumber:3:3})
exten => 1,3,SetVar(Prefix=${MyNumber:5:7})
exten => 1,4,SetVar(Suffix=${MyNumber:8:11})
exten => 1,5,Dial(ZAP/g0/1${AreaCode}${Prefix}${Suffix})
 
hth

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From: Scott Miller [mailto:scoscmil@imap.iu.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:22 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Removing "-" (Dash) from Dialed Numbers



I am trying to enable dial-by-email by using LDAPget to query an Active
Directory server.  I've got it retrieving the phone number fine.
Unforunately, the numbers stored in active directory are either in the
format:  (xxx) xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxx-xxxx.   Is there any way to parse
characters out of the dialed phone number so that I only end up with digits
(remove spaces, parenthesis and dashes)?   From there, my outbound routes
can take care of where to send the call.

 

Help is always appreciated! :-)  

 

Thank you,

Scott Miller

 

 

 

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asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote:
>>     I am trying to enable dial-by-email by using LDAPget to query
>>     an Active Directory server.  I've got it retrieving the phone
>>     number fine.  Unforunately, the numbers stored in active
>>     directory are either in the format:  (xxx) xxx-xxxx or
>> xxx-xxx-xxxx. 
>  Is there
>>     any way to parse characters out of the dialed phone number so
>>     that I only end up with digits (remove spaces, parenthesis and
>>      dashes)? From there, my outbound routes can take care of
>>     where to send the call.
> This would be darned easy to do with the AGI and a perl script.
> 
> IE:
> 
> exten => _X.,1,agi,fixnumbers|${MyNumber}
> exten => _X.,2,Dial(ZAP/g0/1${MyNumber})
> 
> Then, in a perl script called "fixnumbers" and inside the agi-bin
> directory: 
> 
> ########## START CODE #############
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use Asterisk::AGI;
> $AGI = new Asterisk::AGI;
> my %input = $AGI->ReadParse();
> 
> my $number=$ARGV[0];
> $number=~s/-//g;
> $number=~s/ //g;
> $number=~s/\(//g;
> $number=~s/\)//g;
> 
> print $AGI->set_variable('MyNumber',"$number");
> 
> exit;
> 
> ####### END CODE ########
Depending on how many calls per second you want to perform, 
some dialplan magic might be cheaper than starting up a 
perl process. 

I'd write a diaplan macro for this. If the numbers are in a 
fixed format (4th character is a -, 7th character is a -, 
etc), then it's really simple. 

Something like this:

exten => s,1,SetVar(strPart1 = ${myNumber:0:3}
exten => s,2,SetVar(strPart2 = ${myNumber:4:3}
exten => s,3,SetVar(strPart3 = ${myNumber:7:3}
exten => s,4,SetVar(myNumber = $strPart1$strPart2$strPart3

But I'm using quite an old Asterisk, so current syntax might 
be a little different, but the Wiki suggests this still works.

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