Sorry the last line in my last email used a forward slash rather than a backslash.

It should read:

The escape characters seem to disappear and FS attempts to use the, \* an asterisk character, as * a metecharacter.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
2009/3/27 Robert Clayton <rjcajax@gmail.com>:
> As I understand it everything entered in square brackets(a character class)
> is literal. In parentheses it is read as a metacharacter.

Character classes have their own rules. I don't recommend using them
unless you know precisely what you are doing. I like Brian's regex of
"(\*|\d{6})"

In brackets you have interesting things, like dashes not always being
dashes and a leading caret meaning negation.

[^A-Z]  <== what does this mean? ;)

In any case, check the regular expressions page on the wiki for more
online resources.
-MC