Ok, let me see if I can explain what I am trying to do.
I am taking in a list that has a format of:
npa,nxx,trunkname
Think phone numbers in north American dial plan.
the system I am feeding can take the whole 6 digits, but
will match on lesser digits. So Instead of always
inputting all 6 digits and pointing that to a trunk group.
I can say 33021 points to trunk 1000
And 330215 points to trunk 10002
Meaning that all other nxx combinations except 330215
will match trunk 1000.
Hope this make sense.

In reply to Re^3: summarization of list by gman
in thread summarization of list by gman

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