[Freeswitch-users] Need help with lua called from dial plan - How to delimit arguments?

[Dušan Dragić]

Use single quotes (but Giovanni's suggestion is the way to go).

On 30 May 2015 at 22:21, Jim Lynch <jim at k4gvo.com> wrote:
> I have a line in my dialplan that looks like this:
>      <action application="lua" data="cid.lua  ${caller_id_name}
> ${caller_id_number}" />
>
> However when the program is executed and the caller_id_name has a space
> in it, the number gets lost.
> I can't figure out a way to add delimiters that get passed to the
> shell.  None of these work:
>
>      <action application="lua" data="cid.lua \"${caller_id_name}\"
> \"${caller_id_number}\"" />
> or
>      <action application="lua" data="cid.lua ''${caller_id_name}''
> ''${caller_id_number}''" />
> or
>      <action application="lua" data="cid.lua \"\"${caller_id_name}\"\"
> \"\"${caller_id_number}\"\"" />
>
> None of those work.  The quotes are all stripped off when running this test
>
> lua file:
> tmp_file = "/tmp/cidtest.txt";
> local file = assert(io.open(tmp_file, "a"));
> local m_name=argv[1];
> local m_number=argv[2];
> file:write("j cid is ",m_name," number is ",m_number,"\n");
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
>
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Dušan Dragić