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r164648 | murf | 2008-12-16 08:31:54 -0700 (Tue, 16 Dec 2008) | 13 lines

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r164634 | murf | 2008-12-16 08:15:58 -0700 (Tue, 16 Dec 2008) | 5 lines

I added a sentence to clarify why - and ' ' are ignored in patterns
as per bug 14076. Leif says he'll put some stuff about it in the
extensions.conf sample, etc.

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diff --git a/main/pbx.c b/main/pbx.c
index b6f702af5551a00559b95d96f7fc7ee33c3bce67..719cc5fcdd962ff646b1ed25e7c5c8a901311105 100644 (file)
--- a/main/pbx.c
+++ b/main/pbx.c
@@ -1620,7 +1620,8 @@ static void destroy_pattern_tree(struct match_char *pattern_tree) /* pattern tre
  * Special characters used in patterns:
  *     '_'     underscore is the leading character of a pattern.
  *             In other position it is treated as a regular char.
- *     ' ' '-' space and '-' are separator and ignored.
+ *     ' ' '-' space and '-' are separator and ignored. Why? so
+ *             patterns like NXX-XXX-XXXX or NXX XXX XXXX will work.
  *     .       one or more of any character. Only allowed at the end of
  *             a pattern.
  *     !       zero or more of anything. Also impacts the result of CANMATCH