[Asterisk-Users] how to collect user entered digits

[Ryan Courtnage]

John Millican wrote:
> Thanks all for your patience. I found my answer in a post on a totally
> unrelated question (I new if I kept reading all posts ...)  saw this in a
> post for call forwarding.
> exten => *72,1,Answer
> exten => *72,2,Wait(1)
> exten => *72,3,BackGround(allison7/please-enter-your)
> exten => *72,4,Playback(extension)
> exten => *72,5,Playback(then-press-pound)
> exten => *72,6,Playback(beep)
> exten => *72,7,Read(fromext)
> 
> Had not seen anything on "Read" anywhere else, must have been looking in all
> the wrong places. this is a simple solution to my problem.  

FYI - Read() is described on the wiki:

http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+Read