From baecca23205444df5ddaf2f06a6d15f304edbeba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@digium.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:54:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 7470 via svnmerge from
https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.2
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r7470 | kpfleming | 2005-12-13 12:54:22 -0600 (Tue, 13 Dec 2005) | 2 lines
clarify substring documentation
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git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@7471 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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doc/README.variables | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/README.variables b/doc/README.variables
index d95c29ed72..d3f5c61cbe 100644
--- a/doc/README.variables
+++ b/doc/README.variables
@@ -94,17 +94,17 @@ NoOp(${__FOO}) is identical to NoOp(${FOO})
-_______________________________
-REMOVING CHARACTERS FROM STRING
--------------------------------
+___________________________________
+SELECTING CHARACTERS FROM VARIABLES
+-----------------------------------
-The format for removing characters from a variable can be expressed as:
+The format for selecting characters from a variable can be expressed as:
${variable_name[:offset[:length]]}
-If you want to remove the first N characters from the string assigned
+If you want to select the first N characters from the string assigned
to a variable, simply append a colon and the number of characters to
-remove from the beginning of the string to the variable name.
+skip from the beginning of the string to the variable name.
;Remove the first character of extension, save in "number" variable
exten => _9X.,1,Set(number=${EXTEN:1})
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ dial a number to access an outside line, but do not wish to pass the first
digit.
If you use a negative offset number, Asterisk starts counting from the end
-of the string and then removes everything before the new position. The following
+of the string and then selects everything after the new position. The following
example will save the numbers 1234 to the 'number' variable, still assuming
we've dialed 918005551234.
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