[Asterisk-Users] Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid extension is dialed

[Carl Youngblood]

Thank you!  Thank you!  I had been trying all sorts of convoluted ways
to get that information.  That was very easy.

On 6/16/06, Lacy Moore - Aspendora <aspendora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Variables
>
> Use ${INVALID_EXTEN}
>
>
> On 6/15/06, Carl Youngblood <carl at youngbloods.org> wrote:
> >
> I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan
> that has a number of included contexts.  Right now the system is not
> announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so callers
> get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension but
> asterisk didn't pick everything up.  I would like to have the system
> announce the entension that they attempted to dial in addition to the
> error message.  However, at the part where the error announcement is
> made, the extension is set to "i", so I no longer know what digits the
> caller dialed.  I tried inserting a wildcard extension before this
> point that saves the dialed digits in a variable, but since my
> wildcard extension matches everything, it no longer things that an
> invalid extension was dialed, so it doesn't go to the "i" extension.
>  Is there a way I can erase the fact that an extension was matched?  Or
> is there some other way of accomplishing what I am trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Carl