Asterisk – Understanding Asterisk Variable

Asterisk dial command

Asterisk can make use of global, shared and channel-specific variables for arguments to commands. Variables are referenced in the dialplan (extensions.conf) using the syntax ${foo:offset:length} where foo is the name of the variable, offset is an optional field indicating which characters should be excluded, and length is an optional field indicating the number of characters from the offset to be returned. … Read more