Translation-pattern help

[TIMOTHY DAVIDSON]

I need to create a translation pattern to strip the ANI and * from the following string:

*1235551212*8500*

I'm not very good at regular expressions and I can't seem to get the expression to recognize the *. Can anyone help?

Thanx.

[anup.anand]

From what I infer, 1235551212 is the ANI and you need to get rid of that and just send 8500. Please correct me if I am wrong.

If that is what you need, then use this translation rule

voice translation-rule 100

rule 1 /\(\*1235551212\*\)\(8500\)\*/ /\2/

To get the expression to recognoze*, use backslash in front of it, like \*

Regards,

Anup

[TIMOTHY DAVIDSON]

That's perfect. I was close, but couldn't quite get it. Now I see what I was doing wrong.

Thanx.

[TIMOTHY DAVIDSON]

I spoke too soon. When I try to enter the command, I get:

PremierTel(config-translate)#rule 1 /\(\*1235551212\*\)\(8500\)\*/ /\2/

Incorrect format for Translation Match Pattern

regular expression must be of the form ^(\^)?(\+)?([0-9,A-F.*%?#]+)$

Invalid match pattern string input /\(\*1235551212\*\)\(8500\)\*/

PremierTel(config-translate)#

This is IOS 12.4(7a), if that helps. This is very strang because the expression looks good.

-Tim

[michael_davis]

Hmm. Just tried the same (copied from your post) in c3745-ipvoice-mz.123-11.T7.bin:

VG(config)#voice translation-rule 999

VG(cfg-translation-rule)#rule 1 /\(\*1235551212\*\)\(8500\)\*/ /\2/

VG(cfg-translation-rule)#

VG#test voice translation-rule 999 *1235551212*8500*

Matched with rule 1

Original number: *1235551212*8500* Translated number: 8500

Original number type: none Translated number type: none

Original number plan: none Translated number plan: none

Worked fine. Smells like a bug or copy/paste error of some sort.