I want to change a couple off characters * # for A and P to have the monitor filename with characters more friendly. The only solution I could find was to do it my self within the dialplan but it generates a lot of verbosity output and is not as efficient(fast) as I would like to. I ll post it here just in case someone wants to use it. But I m looking for an asterisk function that I can compile something that I can call withing the dialplan like ${REPLACE(${EXTEN},*,a)} and have the exten **123**456*** converted to AA123AA456AAA.
;
; MACRO REPLACE
;
[macro-replace]
;
; ${ARG1} - String source
; ${ARG2} - Chars to replace
; ${ARG3} - Chars to replace with
;
exten => s,1,NoOp(Replacing ${ARG2} for ${ARG3} in ${ARG1})
exten => s,n,Set(str=${ARG1})
exten => s,n,Set(find=${ARG2})
exten => s,n,Set(replace=${ARG3})
exten => s,n,Set(i=0)
exten => s,n,Set(length=${LEN(${str})})
exten => s,n,While($[${i} < ${length}])
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${str:${i}:1}" != "${find}"]?continue)
exten => s,n,Set(pre=)
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${i}" = "0"]?post)
exten => s,n,Set(pre=${str:0:${i}})
exten => s,n(post),Set(post=)
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${i}" = $[${length} - 1]]?write)
exten => s,n,Set(post=${str:$[${i} + 1]})
exten => s,n(write),Set(str=${pre}${replace}${post})
exten => s,n(continue),Set(i=$[${i} + 1])
exten => s,n,EndWhile
exten => s,n,Set(REPLACERESULT=${str})