asterisk users - Nov 2005 - Dialplan pattern match discrepancy

Hi,

This is probably just me mis-reading the documentation, but I have
been led to believe that the '.' in extensions.conf means zero or more
digits, such that

exten => _X.,1,NoOp()

Would trigger for either a single digit, or for a longer number (as
long as it starts with a digit)

In practice (I am using 1.0.7 and 1.0.9) the '.' seems to match *one*
or more digits, so in the above example, a single digit is not matched
as expected.

Is this correct? A bug? Fixed in 1.2 ;-) ?

Thanks for any feedback on this.

Regards,
Steve

Steve Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably just me mis-reading the documentation, but I have
> been led to believe that the '.' in extensions.conf means zero or
more
> digits, such that
>
> exten => _X.,1,NoOp()
>
> Would trigger for either a single digit, or for a longer number (as
> long as it starts with a digit)
>
> In practice (I am using 1.0.7 and 1.0.9) the '.' seems to match
*one*
> or more digits, so in the above example, a single digit is not matched
> as expected.
>
> Is this correct? A bug? Fixed in 1.2 ;-) ?
>
> Thanks for any feedback on this.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
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Hi Steve,

The period is match 1 or more characters(can be a number or letter).
So in your example, you are saying first match a number 0-9, then match 
any one or more characters.

Dan