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----------------------------
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Asterisk dial plan variables
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----------------------------
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There are two levels of parameter evaluation done in the Asterisk
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dial plan in extensions.conf.
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* The first, and most frequently used, is the substitution of variable
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references with their values.
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* Then there are the evaluations of expressions done in $[ .. ].
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This will be discussed below.
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Asterisk has user-defined variables and standard variables set
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by various modules in Asterisk. These standard variables are
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listed at the end of this document.
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___________________________
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PARAMETER QUOTING:
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---------------------------
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exten => s,5,BackGround,blabla
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The parameter (blabla) can be quoted ("blabla"). In this case, a
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comma does not terminate the field. However, the double quotes
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will be passed down to the Background command, in this example.
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Also, characters special to variable substitution, expression evaluation, etc
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(see below), can be quoted. For example, to literally use a $ on the
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string "$1231", quote it with a preceding \. Special characters that must
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be quoted to be used, are [ ] $ " \. (to write \ itself, use \\).
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These Double quotes and escapes are evaluated at the level of the
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asterisk config file parser.
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Double quotes can also be used inside expressions, as discussed below.
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___________________________
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VARIABLES:
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---------------------------
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Parameter strings can include variables. Variable names are arbitrary strings.
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They are stored in the respective channel structure.
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To set a variable to a particular value, do :
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exten => 1,2,Set(varname=value)
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You can substitute the value of a variable everywhere using ${variablename}.
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For example, to stringwise append $lala to $blabla and store result in $koko,
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do:
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exten => 1,2,Set(koko=${blabla}${lala})
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There are two reference modes - reference by value and reference by name.
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To refer to a variable with its name (as an argument to a function that
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requires a variable), just write the name. To refer to the variable's value,
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enclose it inside ${}. For example, Set takes as the first argument
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(before the =) a variable name, so:
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exten => 1,2,Set(koko=lala)
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exten => 1,3,Set(${koko}=blabla)
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stores to the variable "koko" the value "lala" and to variable "lala" the
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value "blabla".
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In fact, everything contained ${here} is just replaced with the value of
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the variable "here".
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____________________
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VARIABLE INHERITANCE
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--------------------
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Variable names which are prefixed by "_" will be inherited to channels
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that are created in the process of servicing the original channel in
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which the variable was set. When the inheritance takes place, the
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prefix will be removed in the channel inheriting the variable. If the
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name is prefixed by "__" in the channel, then the variable is
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inherited and the "__" will remain intact in the new channel.
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In the dialplan, all references to these variables refer to the same
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variable, regardless of having a prefix or not. Note that setting any
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version of the variable removes any other version of the variable,
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regardless of prefix.
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Example:
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Set(__FOO=bar) ; Sets an inherited version of "FOO" variable
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Set(FOO=bar) ; Removes the inherited version and sets a local
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; variable.
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However,
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NoOp(${__FOO}) is identical to NoOp(${FOO})
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___________________________________
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SELECTING CHARACTERS FROM VARIABLES
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-----------------------------------
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The format for selecting characters from a variable can be expressed as:
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${variable_name[:offset[:length]]}
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If you want to select the first N characters from the string assigned
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to a variable, simply append a colon and the number of characters to
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skip from the beginning of the string to the variable name.
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;Remove the first character of extension, save in "number" variable
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exten => _9X.,1,Set(number=${EXTEN:1})
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Assuming we've dialed 918005551234, the value saved to the 'number' variable
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would be 18005551234. This is useful in situations when we require users to
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dial a number to access an outside line, but do not wish to pass the first
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digit.
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If you use a negative offset number, Asterisk starts counting from the end
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of the string and then selects everything after the new position. The following
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example will save the numbers 1234 to the 'number' variable, still assuming
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we've dialed 918005551234.
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;Remove everything before the last four digits of the dialed string
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exten => _9X.,1,Set(number=${EXTEN:-4})
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We can also limit the number of characters from our offset position that we
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wish to use. This is done by appending a second colon and length value to the
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variable name. The following example will save the numbers 555 to the 'number'
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variable.
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;Only save the middle numbers 555 from the string 918005551234
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exten => _9X.,1,Set(number=${EXTEN:5:3})
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The length value can also be used in conjunction with a negative offset. This
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may be useful if the length of the string is unknown, but the trailing digits
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are. The following example will save the numbers 555 to the 'number' variable,
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even if the string starts with more characters than expected (unlike the
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previous example).
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;Save the numbers 555 to the 'number' variable
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exten => _9X.,1,Set(number=${EXTEN:-7:3})
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If a negative length value is entered, it is ignored and Asterisk will match
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to the end of the string.
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___________________________
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EXPRESSIONS:
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---------------------------
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Everything contained inside a bracket pair prefixed by a $ (like $[this]) is
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considered as an expression and it is evaluated. Evaluation works similar to
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(but is done on a later stage than) variable substitution: the expression
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(including the square brackets) is replaced by the result of the expression
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evaluation.
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For example, after the sequence:
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exten => 1,1,Set(lala=$[1 + 2])
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exten => 1,2,Set(koko=$[2 * ${lala}])
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the value of variable koko is "6".
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and, further:
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exten => 1,1,Set,(lala=$[ 1 + 2 ]);
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will parse as intended. Extra spaces are ignored.
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______________________________
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SPACES INSIDE VARIABLE VALUES
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------------------------------
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If the variable being evaluated contains spaces, there can be problems.
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For these cases, double quotes around text that may contain spaces
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will force the surrounded text to be evaluated as a single token.
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The double quotes will be counted as part of that lexical token.
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As an example:
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exten => s,6,GotoIf($[ "${CALLERIDNAME}" : "Privacy Manager" ]?callerid-liar|s|1:s|7)
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The variable CALLERIDNAME could evaluate to "DELOREAN MOTORS" (with a space)
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but the above will evaluate to:
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"DELOREAN MOTORS" : "Privacy Manager"
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and will evaluate to 0.
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The above without double quotes would have evaluated to:
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DELOREAN MOTORS : Privacy Manager
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and will result in syntax errors, because token DELOREAN is immediately
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followed by token MOTORS and the expression parser will not know how to
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evaluate this expression, because it does not match its grammar.
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_____________________
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OPERATORS
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---------------------
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Operators are listed below in order of increasing precedence. Operators
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with equal precedence are grouped within { } symbols.
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expr1 | expr2
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Return the evaluation of expr1 if it is neither an empty string
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nor zero; otherwise, returns the evaluation of expr2.
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expr1 & expr2
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Return the evaluation of expr1 if neither expression evaluates to
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an empty string or zero; otherwise, returns zero.
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expr1 {=, >, >=, <, <=, !=} expr2
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Return the results of integer comparison if both arguments are
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integers; otherwise, returns the results of string comparison
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using the locale-specific collation sequence. The result of each
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comparison is 1 if the specified relation is true, or 0 if the
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relation is false.
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expr1 {+, -} expr2
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Return the results of addition or subtraction of integer-valued
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arguments.
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expr1 {*, /, %} expr2
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Return the results of multiplication, integer division, or
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remainder of integer-valued arguments.
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- expr1
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Return the result of subtracting expr1 from 0.
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This, the unary minus operator, is right associative, and
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has the same precedence as the ! operator.
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! expr1
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Return the result of a logical complement of expr1.
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In other words, if expr1 is null, 0, an empty string,
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or the string "0", return a 1. Otherwise, return a 0.
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It has the same precedence as the unary minus operator, and
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is also right associative.
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expr1 : expr2
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The `:' operator matches expr1 against expr2, which must be a
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regular expression. The regular expression is anchored to the
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beginning of the string with an implicit `^'.
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If the match succeeds and the pattern contains at least one regu-
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lar expression subexpression `\(...\)', the string correspond-
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ing to `\1' is returned; otherwise the matching operator
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returns the number of characters matched. If the match fails and
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the pattern contains a regular expression subexpression the null
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string is returned; otherwise 0.
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Normally, the double quotes wrapping a string are left as part
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of the string. This is disastrous to the : operator. Therefore,
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before the regex match is made, beginning and ending double quote
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characters are stripped from both the pattern and the string.
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expr1 =~ expr2
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Exactly the same as the ':' operator, except that the match is
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not anchored to the beginning of the string. Pardon any similarity
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to seemingly similar operators in other programming languages!
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The ":" and "=~" operators share the same precedence.
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expr1 ? expr2 :: expr3
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Traditional Conditional operator. If expr1 is a number
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that evaluates to 0 (false), expr3 is result of the this
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expression evaluation. Otherwise, expr2 is the result.
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If expr1 is a string, and evaluates to an empty string,
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or the two characters (""), then expr3 is the
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result. Otherwise, expr2 is the result. In Asterisk, all
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3 exprs will be "evaluated"; if expr1 is "true", expr2
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will be the result of the "evaluation" of this
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expression. expr3 will be the result otherwise. This
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operator has the lowest precedence.
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Parentheses are used for grouping in the usual manner.
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Operator precedence is applied as one would expect in any of the C
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or C derived languages.
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Examples
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"One Thousand Five Hundred" =~ "(T[^ ]+)"
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returns: Thousand
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"One Thousand Five Hundred" =~ "T[^ ]+"
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returns: 8
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"One Thousand Five Hundred" : "T[^ ]+"
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returns: 0
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"8015551212" : "(...)"
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returns: 801
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"3075551212":"...(...)"
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returns: 555
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! "One Thousand Five Hundred" =~ "T[^ ]+"
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returns: 0 (because it applies to the string, which is non-null,
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which it turns to "0", and then looks for the pattern
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in the "0", and doesn't find it)
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!( "One Thousand Five Hundred" : "T[^ ]+" )
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returns: 1 (because the string doesn't start with a word starting
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with T, so the match evals to 0, and the ! operator
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inverts it to 1 ).
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2 + 8 / 2
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returns 6. (because of operator precedence; the division is done first, then the addition).
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2+8/2
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returns 6. Spaces aren't necessary.
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(2+8)/2
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returns 5, of course.
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Of course, all of the above examples use constants, but would work the
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same if any of the numeric or string constants were replaced with a
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variable reference ${CALLERIDNUM}, for instance.
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__________________________
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NUMBERS VS STRINGS
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--------------------------
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Tokens consisting only of numbers are converted to 64-bit numbers for
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most of the operators. This means that overflows can occur when the
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numbers get above 18 digits. Warnings will appear in the logs in this
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case.
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___________________________
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CONDITIONALS
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---------------------------
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There is one conditional application - the conditional goto :
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exten => 1,2,gotoif(condition?label1:label2)
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If condition is true go to label1, else go to label2. Labels are interpreted
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exactly as in the normal goto command.
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"condition" is just a string. If the string is empty or "0", the condition
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is considered to be false, if it's anything else, the condition is true.
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This is designed to be used together with the expression syntax described
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above, eg :
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exten => 1,2,gotoif($[${CALLERID} = 123456]?2|1:3|1)
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Example of use :
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exten => s,2,Set(vara=1)
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exten => s,3,Set(varb=$[${vara} + 2])
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exten => s,4,Set(varc=$[${varb} * 2])
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exten => s,5,GotoIf($[${varc} = 6]?99|1:s|6)
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___________________________
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PARSE ERRORS
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---------------------------
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Syntax errors are now output with 3 lines.
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If the extensions.conf file contains a line like:
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exten => s,6,GotoIf($[ "${CALLERIDNUM}" = "3071234567" & & "${CALLERIDNAME}" : "Privacy Manager" ]?callerid-liar|s|1:s|7)
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You may see an error in /var/log/asterisk/messages like this:
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Jul 15 21:27:49 WARNING[1251240752]: ast_yyerror(): syntax error: parse error, unexpected TOK_AND, expecting TOK_MINUS or TOK_LP or TOKEN; Input:
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"3072312154" = "3071234567" & & "Steves Extension" : "Privacy Manager"
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^
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The log line tells you that a syntax error was encountered. It now
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also tells you (in grand standard bison format) that it hit an "AND"
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(&) token unexpectedly, and that was hoping for for a MINUS (-), LP
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(left parenthesis), or a plain token (a string or number).
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The next line shows the evaluated expression, and the line after
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that, the position of the parser in the expression when it became confused,
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marked with the "^" character.
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___________________________
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NULL STRINGS
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---------------------------
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Testing to see if a string is null can be done in one of two different ways:
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exten => _XX.,1,GotoIf($["${calledid}" != ""]?3)
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exten => _XX.,1,GotoIf($[foo${calledid} != foo]?3)
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The second example above is the way suggested by the WIKI. It will
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work as long as there are no spaces in the evaluated value.
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The first way should work in all cases, and indeed, might now
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be the safest way to handle this situation.
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___________________________
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WARNING
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---------------------------
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If you need to do complicated things with strings, asterisk expressions
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is most likely NOT the best way to go about it. AGI scripts are an
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excellent option to this need, and make available the full power of
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whatever language you desire, be it Perl, C, C++, Cobol, RPG, Java,
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Snobol, PL/I, Scheme, Common Lisp, Shell scripts, Tcl, Forth, Modula,
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Pascal, APL, assembler, etc.
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----------------------------
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INCOMPATIBILITIES
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----------------------------
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The asterisk expression parser has undergone some evolution. It is hoped
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that the changes will be viewed as positive.
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The "original" expression parser had a simple, hand-written scanner,
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and a simple bison grammar. This was upgraded to a more involved bison
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grammar, and a hand-written scanner upgraded to allow extra spaces,
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and to generate better error diagnostics. This upgrade required bison
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1.85, and part of the user community felt the pain of having to
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upgrade their bison version.
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The next upgrade included new bison and flex input files, and the makefile
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was upgraded to detect current version of both flex and bison, conditionally
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compiling and linking the new files if the versions of flex and bison would
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allow it.
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If you have not touched your extensions.conf files in a year or so, the
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above upgrades may cause you some heartburn in certain circumstances, as
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several changes have been made, and these will affect asterisk's behavior on
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legacy extension.conf constructs. The changes have been engineered
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to minimize these conflicts, but there are bound to be problems.
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The following list gives some (and most likely, not all) of areas
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of possible concern with "legacy" extension.conf files:
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1. Tokens separated by space(s).
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Previously, tokens were separated by spaces. Thus, ' 1 + 1 ' would evaluate
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to the value '2', but '1+1' would evaluate to the string '1+1'. If this
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behavior was depended on, then the expression evaluation will break. '1+1'
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will now evaluate to '2', and something is not going to work right.
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To keep such strings from being evaluated, simply wrap them in double
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quotes: ' "1+1" '
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2. The colon operator. In versions previous to double quoting, the
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colon operator takes the right hand string, and using it as a
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regex pattern, looks for it in the left hand string. It is given
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an implicit ^ operator at the beginning, meaning the pattern
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will match only at the beginning of the left hand string.
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If the pattern or the matching string had double quotes around
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them, these could get in the way of the pattern match. Now,
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the wrapping double quotes are stripped from both the pattern
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and the left hand string before applying the pattern. This
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was done because it recognized that the new way of
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scanning the expression doesn't use spaces to separate tokens,
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and the average regex expression is full of operators that
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the scanner will recognize as expression operators. Thus, unless
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the pattern is wrapped in double quotes, there will be trouble.
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For instance, ${VAR1} : (Who|What*)+
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may have have worked before, but unless you wrap the pattern
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in double quotes now, look out for trouble! This is better:
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"${VAR1}" : "(Who|What*)+"
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and should work as previous.
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3. Variables and Double Quotes
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Before these changes, if a variable's value contained one or more double
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quotes, it was no reason for concern. It is now!
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4. LE, GE, NE operators removed. The code supported these operators,
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but they were not documented. The symbolic operators, <=, >=, and !=
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should be used instead.
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5. Added the unary '-' operator. So you can 3+ -4 and get -1.
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6. Added the unary '!' operator, which is a logical complement.
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Basically, if the string or number is null, empty, or '0',
|
||||
a '1' is returned. Otherwise a '0' is returned.
|
||||
|
||||
7. Added the '=~' operator, just in case someone is just looking for
|
||||
match anywhere in the string. The only diff with the ':' is that
|
||||
match doesn't have to be anchored to the beginning of the string.
|
||||
|
||||
8. Added the conditional operator 'expr1 ? true_expr :: false_expr'
|
||||
First, all 3 exprs are evaluated, and if expr1 is false, the 'false_expr'
|
||||
is returned as the result. See above for details.
|
||||
|
||||
9. Unary operators '-' and '!' were made right associative.
|
||||
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
DEBUGGING HINTS FOR $[ ] EXPRESSIONS
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
There are two utilities you can build to help debug the $[ ] in
|
||||
your extensions.conf file.
|
||||
|
||||
The first, and most simplistic, is to issue the command:
|
||||
|
||||
make testexpr2
|
||||
|
||||
in the top level asterisk source directory. This will build a small
|
||||
executable, that is able to take the first command line argument, and
|
||||
run it thru the expression parser. No variable substitutions will be
|
||||
performed. It might be safest to wrap the expression in single
|
||||
quotes...
|
||||
|
||||
testexpr2 '2*2+2/2'
|
||||
|
||||
is an example.
|
||||
|
||||
And, in the utils directory, you can say:
|
||||
|
||||
make check_expr
|
||||
|
||||
and a small program will be built, that will check the file mentioned
|
||||
in the first command line argument, for any expressions that might be
|
||||
have problems when you move to flex-2.5.31. It was originally
|
||||
designed to help spot possible incompatibilities when moving from the
|
||||
pre-2.5.31 world to the upgraded version of the lexer.
|
||||
|
||||
But one more capability has been added to check_expr, that might make
|
||||
it more generally useful. It now does a simple minded evaluation of
|
||||
all variables, and then passes the $[] exprs to the parser. If there
|
||||
are any parse errors, they will be reported in the log file. You can
|
||||
use check_expr to do a quick sanity check of the expressions in your
|
||||
extensions.conf file, to see if they pass a crude syntax check.
|
||||
|
||||
The "simple-minded" variable substitution replaces ${varname} variable
|
||||
references with '555'. You can override the 555 for variable values,
|
||||
by entering in var=val arguments after the filename on the command
|
||||
line. So...
|
||||
|
||||
check_expr /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf CALLERIDNUM=3075551212 DIALSTATUS=TORTURE EXTEN=121
|
||||
|
||||
will substitute any ${CALLERIDNUM} variable references with
|
||||
3075551212, any ${DIALSTATUS} variable references with 'TORTURE', and
|
||||
any ${EXTEN} references with '121'. If there is any fancy stuff
|
||||
going on in the reference, like ${EXTEN:2}, then the override will
|
||||
not work. Everything in the ${...} has to match. So, to substitute
|
||||
#{EXTEN:2} references, you'd best say:
|
||||
|
||||
check_expr /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf CALLERIDNUM=3075551212 DIALSTATUS=TORTURE EXTEN:2=121
|
||||
|
||||
on stdout, you will see something like:
|
||||
|
||||
OK -- $[ "${DIALSTATUS}" = "TORTURE" | "${DIALSTATUS}" = "DONTCALL" ] at line 416
|
||||
|
||||
In the expr2_log file that is generated, you will see:
|
||||
|
||||
line 416, evaluation of $[ "TORTURE" = "TORTURE" | "TORTURE" = "DONTCALL" ] result: 1
|
||||
|
||||
check_expr is a very simplistic algorithm, and it is far from being
|
||||
guaranteed to work in all cases, but it is hoped that it will be
|
||||
useful.
|
||||
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
Asterisk standard channel variables
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
There are a number of variables that are defined or read
|
||||
by Asterisk. Here is a list of them. More information is
|
||||
available in each application's help text. All these variables
|
||||
are in UPPER CASE only.
|
||||
|
||||
Variables marked with a * are builtin functions and can't be set,
|
||||
only read in the dialplan. Writes to such variables are silently
|
||||
ignored.
|
||||
|
||||
${ACCOUNTCODE} * Account code (if specified) (Deprecated; use ${CDR(accountcode)})
|
||||
${BLINDTRANSFER} The name of the channel on the other side of a blind transfer
|
||||
${BRIDGEPEER} Bridged peer
|
||||
${CALLERANI} * Caller ANI (PRI channels) (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(ani)})
|
||||
${CALLERID} * Caller ID (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(all)})
|
||||
${CALLERIDNAME} * Caller ID Name only (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(name)})
|
||||
${CALLERIDNUM} * Caller ID Number only (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(num)})
|
||||
${CALLINGANI2} * Caller ANI2 (PRI channels)
|
||||
${CALLINGPRES} * Caller ID presentation for incoming calls (PRI channels)
|
||||
${CALLINGTNS} * Transit Network Selector (PRI channels)
|
||||
${CALLINGTON} * Caller Type of Number (PRI channels)
|
||||
${CHANNEL} * Current channel name
|
||||
${CONTEXT} * Current context
|
||||
${DATETIME} * Current date time in the format: DDMMYYYY-HH:MM:SS (Deprecated; use ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%d%m%Y-%H:%M:%S)})
|
||||
${DB_RESULT} Result value of DB_EXISTS() dial plan function
|
||||
${DNID} * Dialed Number Identifier (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(dnid)})
|
||||
${EPOCH} * Current unix style epoch
|
||||
${EXTEN} * Current extension
|
||||
${ENV(VAR)} Environmental variable VAR
|
||||
${GOTO_ON_BLINDXFR} Transfer to the specified context/extension/priority
|
||||
after a blind transfer (use ^ characters in place of
|
||||
| to separate context/extension/priority when setting
|
||||
this variable from the dialplan)
|
||||
${HANGUPCAUSE} * Asterisk cause of hangup (inbound/outbound)
|
||||
${HINT} * Channel hints for this extension
|
||||
${HINTNAME} * Suggested Caller*ID name for this extension
|
||||
${INVALID_EXTEN} The invalid called extension (used in the "i" extension)
|
||||
${LANGUAGE} * Current language (Deprecated; use ${LANGUAGE()})
|
||||
${LEN(VAR)} * String length of VAR (integer)
|
||||
${PRIORITY} * Current priority in the dialplan
|
||||
${PRIREDIRECTREASON} Reason for redirect on PRI, if a call was directed
|
||||
${RDNIS} * Redirected Dial Number ID Service (Deprecated; use ${CALLERID(rdnis)})
|
||||
${TIMESTAMP} * Current date time in the format: YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS (Deprecated; use ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)})
|
||||
${TRANSFER_CONTEXT} Context for transferred calls
|
||||
${FORWARD_CONTEXT} Context for forwarded calls
|
||||
${UNIQUEID} * Current call unique identifier
|
||||
|
||||
Application return values
|
||||
-------------------------
|
||||
In Asterisk 1.2, many applications return the result in a variable
|
||||
instead of, as in Asterisk 1.0, changing the dial plan priority (+101).
|
||||
For the various status values, see each application's help text.
|
||||
|
||||
${AQMSTATUS} * addqueuemember()
|
||||
${AVAILSTATUS} * chanisavail()
|
||||
${CHECKGROUPSTATUS} * checkgroup()
|
||||
${CHECKMD5STATUS} * checkmd5()
|
||||
${CPLAYBACKSTATUS} * controlplayback()
|
||||
${DIALSTATUS} * dial()
|
||||
${DBGETSTATUS} * dbget()
|
||||
${ENUMSTATUS} * enumlookup()
|
||||
${HASVMSTATUS} * hasnewvoicemail()
|
||||
${LOOKUPBLSTATUS} * lookupblacklist()
|
||||
${OSPLOOKUPSTATUS} * osplookup()
|
||||
${OSPNEXTSTATUS} * ospnext()
|
||||
${OSPFINISHSTATUS} * ospfinish()
|
||||
${PARKEDAT} * parkandannounce()
|
||||
${PLAYBACKSTATUS} * playback()
|
||||
${PQMSTATUS} * pausequeuemember()
|
||||
${PRIVACYMGRSTATUS} * privacymanager()
|
||||
${QUEUESTATUS} * queue()
|
||||
${RQMSTATUS} * removequeuemember()
|
||||
${SENDIMAGESTATUS} * sendimage()
|
||||
${SENDTEXTSTATUS} * sendtext()
|
||||
${SENDURLSTATUS} * sendurl()
|
||||
${SYSTEMSTATUS} * system()
|
||||
${TRANSFERSTATUS} * transfer()
|
||||
${TXTCIDNAMESTATUS} * txtcidname()
|
||||
${UPQMSTATUS} * unpausequeuemember()
|
||||
${VMSTATUS} * voicmail()
|
||||
${VMBOXEXISTSSTATUS} * vmboxexists()
|
||||
${WAITSTATUS} * waitforsilence()
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Various application variables
|
||||
-----------------------------
|
||||
${CURL} * Resulting page content for curl()
|
||||
${ENUM} * Result of application EnumLookup
|
||||
${EXITCONTEXT} Context to exit to in IVR menu (app background())
|
||||
or in the RetryDial() application
|
||||
${MONITOR} * Set to "TRUE" if the channel is/has been monitored (app monitor())
|
||||
${MONITOR_EXEC} Application to execute after monitoring a call
|
||||
${MONITOR_EXEC_ARGS} Arguments to application
|
||||
${MONITOR_FILENAME} File for monitoring (recording) calls in queue
|
||||
${QUEUE_PRIO} Queue priority
|
||||
${QUEUE_MAX_PENALTY} Maximum member penalty allowed to answer caller
|
||||
${QUEUESTATUS} Status of the call, one of:
|
||||
(TIMEOUT | FULL | JOINEMPTY | LEAVEEMPTY | JOINUNAVAIL | LEAVEUNAVAIL)
|
||||
${RECORDED_FILE} * Recorded file in record()
|
||||
${TALK_DETECTED} * Result from talkdetect()
|
||||
${TOUCH_MONITOR} The filename base to use with Touch Monitor (auto record)
|
||||
${TOUCH_MONITOR_FORMAT} The audio format to use with Touch Monitor (auto record)
|
||||
${TOUCH_MONITOR_OUTPUT} * Recorded file from Touch Monitor (auto record)
|
||||
${TXTCIDNAME} * Result of application TXTCIDName
|
||||
${VPB_GETDTMF} chan_vpb
|
||||
|
||||
The MeetMe Conference Bridge uses the following variables:
|
||||
----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${MEETME_RECORDINGFILE} Name of file for recording a conference with
|
||||
the "r" option
|
||||
${MEETME_RECORDINGFORMAT} Format of file to be recorded
|
||||
${MEETME_EXIT_CONTEXT} Context for exit out of meetme meeting
|
||||
${MEETME_AGI_BACKGROUND} AGI script for Meetme (zap only)
|
||||
${MEETMESECS} * Number of seconds a user participated in a MeetMe conference
|
||||
|
||||
The VoiceMail() application uses the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${VM_CATEGORY} Sets voicemail category
|
||||
${VM_NAME} * Full name in voicemail
|
||||
${VM_DUR} * Voicemail duration
|
||||
${VM_MSGNUM} * Number of voicemail message in mailbox
|
||||
${VM_CALLERID} * Voicemail Caller ID (Person leaving vm)
|
||||
${VM_CIDNAME} * Voicemail Caller ID Name
|
||||
${VM_CIDNUM} * Voicemail Caller ID Number
|
||||
${VM_DATE} * Voicemail Date
|
||||
${VM_MESSAGEFILE} * Path to message left by caller
|
||||
|
||||
The VMAuthenticate() application uses the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${AUTH_MAILBOX} * Authenticated mailbox
|
||||
${AUTH_CONTEXT} * Authenticated mailbox context
|
||||
|
||||
DUNDiLookup() uses the following variables
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${DUNDTECH} * The Technology of the result from a call to DUNDiLookup()
|
||||
${DUNDDEST} * The Destination of the result from a call to DUNDiLookup()
|
||||
|
||||
The Zaptel channel sets the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${ANI2} * The ANI2 Code provided by the network on the incoming call.
|
||||
(ie, Code 29 identifies call as a Prison/Inmate Call)
|
||||
${CALLTYPE} * Type of call (Speech, Digital, etc)
|
||||
${CALLEDTON} * Type of number for incoming PRI extension
|
||||
i.e. 0=unknown, 1=international, 2=domestic, 3=net_specific,
|
||||
4=subscriber, 6=abbreviated, 7=reserved
|
||||
${CALLINGSUBADDR} * Called PRI Subaddress
|
||||
${FAXEXTEN} * The extension called before being redirected to "fax"
|
||||
${PRIREDIRECTREASON} * Reason for redirect, if a call was directed
|
||||
|
||||
The SIP channel uses the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${SIPCALLID} * SIP Call-ID: header verbatim (for logging or CDR matching)
|
||||
${SIPDOMAIN} * SIP destination domain of an inbound call (if appropriate)
|
||||
${SIPUSERAGENT} * SIP user agent
|
||||
${SIPURI} * SIP uri
|
||||
${SIP_CODEC} Set the SIP codec for a call
|
||||
${SIP_URI_OPTIONS} * additional options to add to the URI for an outgoing call
|
||||
|
||||
The Agent channel uses the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${AGENTMAXLOGINTRIES} Set the maximum number of failed logins
|
||||
${AGENTUPDATECDR} Whether to update the CDR record with Agent channel data
|
||||
${AGENTGOODBYE} Sound file to use for "Good Bye" when agent logs out
|
||||
${AGENTACKCALL} Whether the agent should acknowledge the incoming call
|
||||
${AGENTAUTOLOGOFF} Auto logging off for an agent
|
||||
${AGENTWRAPUPTIME} Setting the time for wrapup between incoming calls
|
||||
${AGENTNUMBER} * Agent number (username) set at login
|
||||
${AGENTSTATUS} * Status of login ( fail | on | off )
|
||||
${AGENTEXTEN} * Extension for logged in agent
|
||||
|
||||
The Dial() application uses the following variables:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${DIALEDPEERNAME} * Dialed peer name
|
||||
${DIALEDPEERNUMBER} * Dialed peer number
|
||||
${DIALEDTIME} * Time for the call (seconds)
|
||||
${ANSWEREDTIME} * Time from dial to answer (seconds)
|
||||
${DIALSTATUS} * Status of the call, one of:
|
||||
(CHANUNAVAIL | CONGESTION | BUSY | NOANSWER
|
||||
| ANSWER | CANCEL | DONTCALL | TORTURE)
|
||||
${DYNAMIC_FEATURES} * The list of features (from the [applicationmap] section of
|
||||
features.conf) to activate during the call, with feature
|
||||
names separated by '#' characters
|
||||
${LIMIT_PLAYAUDIO_CALLER} Soundfile for call limits
|
||||
${LIMIT_PLAYAUDIO_CALLEE} Soundfile for call limits
|
||||
${LIMIT_WARNING_FILE} Soundfile for call limits
|
||||
${LIMIT_TIMEOUT_FILE} Soundfile for call limits
|
||||
${LIMIT_CONNECT_FILE} Soundfile for call limits
|
||||
${OUTBOUND_GROUP} Default groups for peer channels (as in SetGroup)
|
||||
* See "show application dial" for more information
|
||||
|
||||
The chanisavail() application sets the following variables:
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${AVAILCHAN} * the name of the available channel if one was found
|
||||
${AVAILORIGCHAN} * the canonical channel name that was used to create the channel
|
||||
${AVAILSTATUS} * Status of requested channel
|
||||
|
||||
When using macros in the dialplan, these variables are available
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${MACRO_EXTEN} * The calling extensions
|
||||
${MACRO_CONTEXT} * The calling context
|
||||
${MACRO_PRIORITY} * The calling priority
|
||||
${MACRO_OFFSET} Offset to add to priority at return from macro
|
||||
|
||||
If you compile with OSP support in the SIP channel, these
|
||||
variables are used:
|
||||
---------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
${OSPHANDLE} Handle from the OSP Library
|
||||
${OSPTECH} OSP Technology from Library
|
||||
${OSPDEST} OSP Destination from Library
|
||||
${OSPTOKEN} OSP Token to use for call from Library
|
||||
${OSPRESULTS} Number of OSP results
|
||||
|
||||
____________________________________
|
||||
CDR Variables
|
||||
------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
If the channel has a cdr, that cdr record has it's own set of variables which
|
||||
can be accessed just like channel variables. The following builtin variables
|
||||
are available.
|
||||
|
||||
${CDR(clid)} Caller ID
|
||||
${CDR(src)} Source
|
||||
${CDR(dst)} Destination
|
||||
${CDR(dcontext)} Destination context
|
||||
${CDR(channel)} Channel name
|
||||
${CDR(dstchannel)} Destination channel
|
||||
${CDR(lastapp)} Last app executed
|
||||
${CDR(lastdata)} Last app's arguments
|
||||
${CDR(start)} Time the call started.
|
||||
${CDR(answer)} Time the call was answered.
|
||||
${CDR(end)} Time the call ended.
|
||||
${CDR(duration)} Duration of the call.
|
||||
${CDR(billsec)} Duration of the call once it was answered.
|
||||
${CDR(disposition)} ANSWERED, NO ANSWER, BUSY
|
||||
${CDR(amaflags)} DOCUMENTATION, BILL, IGNORE etc
|
||||
${CDR(accountcode)} The channel's account code.
|
||||
${CDR(uniqueid)} The channel's unique id.
|
||||
${CDR(userfield)} The channels uses specified field.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In addition, you can set your own extra variables with a traditional
|
||||
Set(CDR(var)=val) to anything you want.
|
||||
|
||||
Certain functional variables may be accessed with ${foo(<args>)}. A list
|
||||
of these functional variables may be found by typing "show functions"
|
||||
at the Asterisk CLI.
|
Reference in New Issue
Block a user