[Asterisk-Users] agi exec problem (followup)

[Brian West]

What is the goal of this?  It doesn't make much sense to me.  Care to
share some insite into what your goal is?

bkw

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, tad wrote:

> actually, i do have a workaround which bypasses the exec command entirely:
> system("asterisk -r -x 'add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local'");
>
> but it's ugly. seems like it should be possible to do this with exec.
>
> .t
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:17:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: tad <tad at media.mit.edu>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: agi exec problem.
>
> hi folks.
>
> (apologies in advance if this is a particularly stupid question)
>
> just getting my feet wet with asterisk / agi, and am a little stuck using
> EXEC. it works fine for applicaitons that take simple arguments, but
> chokes on applications that require multiple words as arguments.
>
> for example, this works fine:
>  EXEC Playback(demo-congrats)
>
> but this doesn't:
>  EXEC add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local
>
> problem seems to be that AGI reads the second example to be:
>  EXEC add extension
>
> and ignores the rest (presumably because it assumes the space after
> 'extension' singifies the end of the argument)
>
> is there a way around this?
>
> thanks,
> tad
>
>
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