“!” In Dial-pattern Not Work With Overlap Dialing
hello all
i want to have overlap dialing in asterisk. it works fine if i don’t have
“!” in my pattern. for example pattern “07.” works fine and i can call
07122 by overlap dialing via it. but if i define “07!” i can’t call 07122
because it doesn’t wait to collect all digits and therefore call 07. if i define “07.!” it works fine again and wait to collect all digits and hence
07122 rings.
what is wrong with my patterns? how should i use “!” in my pattern in order to have overlap dialing?
every comment or points are appreciated. SAM
One thought on - “!” In Dial-pattern Not Work With Overlap Dialing
A “!” instructs Asterisk to match *0 or more* characters [1]. Since you have already provided all the digits to match that pattern, Asterisk correctly detects that it has matched the extension and begins execution.
If you want to tell dialplan execution to wait for more digits, you can use the Incomplete dialplan application [2]. It exists specifically for this purpose.
[1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Pattern+Matching
[2] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Application_Incomplete