1. By definition, Asterisk dialplan is ugly
2. When “coding”, I usually only comment the “what”, not the “how”. I don’t need to explain “this is a condition” right ? Anyone used to asterisk dialplans would figure this one out in under 2 minutes. Even if the code and logic are bad.
3. I’m just sharing what works for me. I’ve found other solutions here and there but none were fitting my needs (and working out of the box). This is why I shared. Try it for yourself, copy & paste the code, it’ll work out of the box.
4. Yeah I could use an AGI or whatever script.. AGI would require to load res_agi.so, a 64 KB module plus the AGI script, compared to this 1.9KB code…
5. So I’m gonna leave it to the experts, is calling an external script (and potentially an external parser) more efficient than using pure dialplan commands and functions ?

Cheers
Seb

why not call an external script that does the setup of the call file instead of writing this pice of ugly (unreadable) code?

Kinda obscure code nobody can really read and understand, no comments etc

i would rather call a script that does the voodoo and keep my config file small.

Just my 2 cents.

Marcel.