<div dir="ltr">I didn&#39;t need to do any such thing... Did you get an error using myString:len()?<br clear="all"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">-Avi</span></span></div>

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</span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Alex <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alex@thewinelake.com" target="_blank">alex@thewinelake.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


  
    
  
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    <div>OK, so replying to myself, I think I
      need to include the string library... I can see in lua.conf.xml
      that one can have a &quot;module-directory&quot; but I&#39;m not sure where I
      should get these modules from. Any recommended quick reading on
      this?<br>
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      <div>More lua trouble - real beginner
        stuff, I&#39;m afraid.<br>
        <br>
        Why does this not work:<br>
        <br>
                destnum = session:playAndGetDigits(3, 20, 3, 5000, &quot;#&quot;,
        &quot;/home/oev/fs-pabx/prompts/dmsb12_mcm3.wav&quot;, &quot;&quot;, &quot;\\d+\\*&quot;)<br>
                l = strlen(destnum)<br>
        <br>
        The objection is<br>
        <br>
        <br>
        2012-06-18 16:52:30.415261 [ERR] mod_lua.cpp:198
        /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/mcm2.lua:13: attempt to call
        global &#39;strlen&#39; (a nil value)<br>
        stack traceback:<br>
                /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/mcm2.lua:13: in function
        &#39;getDestNumber&#39;<br>
                /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/mcm2.lua:49: in function
        &#39;unattendedTransfer&#39;<br>
                /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/mcm2.lua:24: in function
        &#39;processMcmOption&#39;<br>
                /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/mcm2.lua:153: in main
        chunk<br>
        <br>
        I was just assuming that lua is lua and that anything in the lua
        wiki (eg. <a href="http://www.lua.org/manual/2.4/node32.html#exstring" target="_blank">http://www.lua.org/manual/2.4/node32.html#exstring</a>)
        would work. <br>
        <br>
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        <div dir="ltr">Phrases let you mix and match speak, say,
          play-file, silence, other macros, and even passing in options.<br>
          <br>
          <div><a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_phrase" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_phrase</a><br>
            <a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Speech_Phrase_Management" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Speech_Phrase_Management</a><br>
            <br>
            <div>-Avi<br>
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