Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

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WAIT FOR DIGIT

Synopsis

WAIT FOR DIGIT timeout

Waits up to timeout milliseconds for the channel to receive a DTMF digit. Use -1 for the timeout value if you want the call to block indefinitely.

Return values:

-1: Error or channel failure
0: Timeout
value: ASCII value of digit (if pressed), in decimal

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