[asterisk-users] Dialplan question: Variables in GoTo() ?

[Joshua Colp]

A J Stiles wrote:
> I can't seem to find a definitive answer on this, and I really don't want to
> risk breaking a production server to find out; so I am going to try asking this
> here, and maybe anyone else in the same situation searching the archives
> sometime in future will find the answer I get.
>
> Can you use variables in the target of a GoTo() statement?
>
> What I am specifically thinking of is this;
>
> [from_some_source]
> exten =>  s,1,AGI(look_up_stuff.agi,${CALLERID(num)},${EXTEN})
> ; this AGI script sets variables: next_context, next_ext, next_step
> exten =>  s,n,GoTo(${next_context},${next_ext},${next_step})
>
> Will this work?  Does Asterisk evaluate expressions like this, or does it
> expect literals?

It most certainly will work. It evaluates on use.

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