The users entering numbers into their phonebooks are able to recognize the number more easily.

I will tell them to forget it and make the phone numbers numeric only.

From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Michael Collins
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:21 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Dialplan XML phone number match

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Lars Zeb <larclap@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have a match expression for outbound calls as “\d{10}”. It’s fine for unformatted numbers. Not knowing any better, I created another extension to handle numbers formatted like XXX-XXX-XXXX, which is easier to read and exists in one hard phone’s phonebook.

It looks like: “^1?(\d{3})-(\d{3})-(\d{4})$”. But I can see making many extensions for different formats.

Out of curiosity, what benefit does having all these formats get you?
-MC