[Freeswitch-users] Bracketing or not bracketing

[Dušan Dragić]

As Steve and Steven already said, you only need the brackets to create
a capture group that contains the regexp match.

Take a look at the regular expression wiki page:
https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Regular_Expression

On 11 January 2014 12:53, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:
> These will match identically.
>
> The only difference will be the second will set $1 to 123456789, the first
> will not.
>
> Brackets are only needed if you either want to capture part of the match
> into $1 etc, or you want to match against multiple possibilities
> (this|orthis).
>
>
> On 11 January 2014 08:03, Richard Mace <richard.mace at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> When you are setting up an inbound route, should you put brackets round
>> the  destination_number or not?
>>
>> That is, which of theses entries is correct/safer/will work?
>>
>>     <condition field="destination_number" expression="^123456789$>
>>
>> or
>>
>>      <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(123456789)$>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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