asterisk users - Sep 2014 - Pattern Extension not working in Dialplan

Hi,

I created a dummy dialplan  where I ask the user to enter the age.

[macro-age]
exten => s,1,Background(my/age)      ;;Play recorded message to enter age
exten => s,n,WaitExten(10)
exten => _XX,1,Set(AGE=${EXTEN})    ;; this line is not executing, instead
dialplan is terminating with error given below.
exten => s,n,NoOp(${AGE})
exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${LEN(${AGE})} > 0]?notEmpty)
exten => s,n,Goto(s,1)
exten => s(notEmpty),n,Background(my/thank-you)
exten => s,n,Wait(1)


When I receive call and tries to enter the digits (86 lets say), it only
accept just first digit and terminates even before considering second digit.
Error message :
 WARNING[5726][C-0000000a]: pbx.c:6696 __ast_pbx_run: Invalid extension
'8', but no rule 'i' or 'e' in context
'testmacro'

Please suggest what might be wrong.


Anurag Rana
http://newbie42.blogspot.in/
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The first issue I see is you are attempting to insert your pattern match in
the middle of your 's' extension, That's going to break your
's' extension.

The second issue is that you are matching on XX which will match two
digits, You need to match on _X instead if you are attempting to match on
the number 8.

I recommend you look into 'read' instead of trying to do a pattern
match.

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Anurag Rana <anuragrana31189 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a dummy dialplan  where I ask the user to enter the age.
>
> [macro-age]
> exten => s,1,Background(my/age)      ;;Play recorded message to enter
age
> exten => s,n,WaitExten(10)
> exten => _XX,1,Set(AGE=${EXTEN})    ;; this line is not executing,
instead
> dialplan is terminating with error given below.
> exten => s,n,NoOp(${AGE})
> exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${LEN(${AGE})} > 0]?notEmpty)
> exten => s,n,Goto(s,1)
> exten => s(notEmpty),n,Background(my/thank-you)
> exten => s,n,Wait(1)
>
>
> When I receive call and tries to enter the digits (86 lets say), it only
> accept just first digit and terminates even before considering second
digit.
> Error message :
>  WARNING[5726][C-0000000a]: pbx.c:6696 __ast_pbx_run: Invalid extension
> '8', but no rule 'i' or 'e' in context
'testmacro'
>
> Please suggest what might be wrong.
>
>
> Anurag Rana
> http://newbie42.blogspot.in/
>
>
>
>
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On Sunday 07 Sep 2014, Anurag Rana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a dummy dialplan  where I ask the user to enter the age.
> 
> [macro-age]
> exten => s,1,Background(my/age)      ;;Play recorded message to enter
age
> exten => s,n,WaitExten(10)
> exten => _XX,1,Set(AGE=${EXTEN})    ;; this line is not executing,
instead
> dialplan is terminating with error given below.
> exten => s,n,NoOp(${AGE})
> exten => s,n,GotoIf($[${LEN(${AGE})} > 0]?notEmpty)
> exten => s,n,Goto(s,1)
> exten => s(notEmpty),n,Background(my/thank-you)
> exten => s,n,Wait(1)
> 
> 
> When I receive call and tries to enter the digits (86 lets say), it only
> accept just first digit and terminates even before considering second
> digit. Error message :
>  WARNING[5726][C-0000000a]: pbx.c:6696 __ast_pbx_run: Invalid extension
> '8', but no rule 'i' or 'e' in context
'testmacro'
> 
> Please suggest what might be wrong.
> 
> 
> Anurag Rana
> http://newbie42.blogspot.in/
You would be better off jumping to a new context and building up your number, 
digit-by-digit as it is entered, in a channel variable.

In your "s" extension, set your variable to an empty string; do a
Background()
and then WaitExten() for a digit to be entered.  Have an extension _X to 
capture each digit and append it to the number so far.  Then use a GotoIf() to 
jump to the WaitExten() statement if insufficient digits have been entered so 
far.  You might also want a * extension to clear the number entered so far, if 
the user makes a mistake.


If you need a written example, I might be able to dig something out later.

-- 
AJS

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