Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

Name

StripMSD() — Strips the specified number of leading (most significant) digits from the current extension

Synopsis

    StripMSD(count)

Strips the leading count digits from the channel’s associated extension and continues processing at the next priority for the resulting extension. So, for example, if priority 1 of extension 5551212 is StripMSD(3), the first 3 digits will be stripped from 5551212 and the next step executed will be priority 2 of extension 1212. If you switch into an extension that has no priority n+1 (where n is the current priority), the PBX will treat it as though the user dialed an invalid extension.

Always returns 0.

This application is deprecated and has been replaced with the substring expression ${EXTEN: X : Y }.

               exten => 5551212,1,StripMSD(3)
    exten => 1212,2,SayDigits(${EXTEN})

    ; a better way of doing the same thing
    exten => 5551234,1,SayDigits(${EXTEN:3})

See Also

StripLSD(), README.variables, variable substring syntax