Removing a prefix

Asterisk Asterisk Dialplan
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I pretty much run Asterisk personally just to learn it, so I experiment with stuff, and If I break it it’s no big deal. I might have a few questions as I’m figuring things out.

Say, for instance I want to create a fake area code, such as 333 and prefix the number with 1-333, but, I want to remove the 1-333 when the number is dialed on a trunk. Like, if I were to dial 1-333-1308, but only 1308 is passed to the trunk. I used to know how to do this but I forget.

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There are examples of this in the sample extensions.conf.

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The ${EXTEN} variable properly has the syntax ${EXTEN : x : y } , where x is the starting position and y is the number of digits to return. Given the following dial string:

94169671111

we can extract the following digit strings using the ${EXTEN:x : y } construct:

  • ${EXTEN:1:3} would contain 416
  • ${EXTEN:4:7} would contain 9671111
  • ${EXTEN:-4:4} would start four digits from the end and return four digits, giving us 1111
  • ${EXTEN:2:-4} would start two digits in and exclude the last four digits, giving us 16967
  • ${EXTEN:-6:-4} would start six digits from the end and exclude the last four digits, giving us 67
  • ${EXTEN:1} would give us everything after the first digit, or 4169671111 (if the number of digits to return is left blank, it will return the entire remaining string)
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This really applies to the ${.....} operator, in general, whether used with variables, functions, or functions, like EXTEN, pretending to be variables.

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