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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Srigo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I still see the same value getting generated each time the extension gets executed e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> 51a7a226-27e6-4fe3-979b-0b0bb28253d9 2017-01-24 09:49:21.504783 [INFO] mod_dptools.c:1628 Random value is 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I take it that from-core is some context you've defined in your environment rather than anything special, as it didn't work when I
used that (so I changed it to 'default')?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>KSrigo<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 January 2017 09:14<br>
<b>To:</b> FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Random number generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Chris,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure if I understood exactly your needs. This is how I use randomize function:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Define Random Number Generator extension:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><extension name="random_number_gen" continue="true"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <condition field="destination_number" expression="^random_number_gen$" break="never"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <!-- generate random number between 1 and 100 --><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <action application="set" data="rand_val=${expr(randomize(&x);ceil(random(0,100,&x)))}" inline="true"/><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <action application="log" data="INFO Random value is ${rand_val}"/><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </condition><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></extension><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">then call it in your diaplan each time you need to get a random number set:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><action application="execute_extension" data="random_number_gen XML from-core"/><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Srigo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 24, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Chris Young <<a href="mailto:Chris.Young@enghouse.com">Chris.Young@enghouse.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On the wiki, there is an example of using mod_expr to generate a random number:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <!-- generate random number between 1 and 100 --><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <action application="set" data="rand_val=${expr(randomize(&x);ceil(random(0,100,&x)))}"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <action application="log" data="INFO Random value is ${rand_val}"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This works well the first time but if the same dialplan instructions are executed subsequently, the same number is produced each time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Is this by design? Is there any other way to seed the random number generator so it will produce different results, as randomize() doesn't seem to be doing quite what I thought
it would?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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