On Saturday 13 December 2008 02:32:01 Philipp Kempgen wrote: > Anthony Messina schrieb: > > On Friday 12 December 2008 15:41:54 Mark Michelson wrote: > >> would result in a variable called FOO being set to the value > >> "hello,BAR=world". The MSet application was added to facilitate being > >> able to set multiple variables in a single application call. If using > >> MSet, the above would instead result in a variable called FOO being set > >> to the value "hello" and a variable called BAR being set to "world". > > > > what about Set(ARRAY(var1,var2)=value1,value2) ? > > > > is the MSet() app a better/quicker way to do this? > > Just a word of warning: > 1.4: Set(ARRAY(var1|var2)=val1\,val2) > or: Set(ARRAY(var1,var2)=val1\,val2) > 1.6: Set(ARRAY(var1,var2)=val1,val2) ? > > At least in 1.4 the "," has to be escaped because otherwise you'd > have a second argument to Set(). > > I still think that a plain > Set(var1=val1); > Set(var2=val2); > is the most portable way which is least likely to cause any > problems. > > portable => better > Maybe not quicker. (Didn't do any benchmarks.) > But certainly easier to read/write/maintain.
While ARRAY() certainly would work this way for setting multiple variables at once, the intended usage is for setting multiple variables from the result of a command which generates multiple answers (read: multiple points of data). The usual case for this is func_odbc. -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
