[asterisk-users] using ${EXTEN} with waitexten

[Ishfaq Malik]

Hi

Using ${EXTEN:0:3}

will only return the first 3 digits entered

Ish

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:27 -0400, Eddie Mikell wrote:
> All:
> 
> Some of the people who dial into to our system will press the pound key 
> when entering an extension for the directory key.  When waitexten gets 
> that, I get an error messages as, for example 123# doesn't match any 
> extension.
> 
> I was going to use ${EXTEN} to just use the first three numbers, but I'm 
> not sure how to use this with WaitExten.
> 
> so I have
> 
> exten => 4349701010,1,Answer()
> exten => 4349701010,2,ringing
> exten => 4349701010,3,wait(8)
> exten => 4349701010,4,Background(asterisk-recording)
> exten => 4349701010,5,WaitExten(9,m)
> exten => 4349701010,6,Dial(SIP/100&SIP/123&SIP/132&SIP/134&SIP/149,20)
> exten => 4349701010,7,VoiceMail(100 at default,u)
> exten => 4349701010,8,Playback(vm-goodbye)
> exten => 4349701010,9,Hangup()
> 
> Where could I check for the extra # keystroke?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> eddie
> 
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