On 5 May 2006 at 21:37, Nabeel Jafferali wrote:
> I have a list of dates (the first column) and values as such:
>
> 0101 0530 1220 0630
> 0201 0531 1221 0629
> .
> .
> 3012 0626 0111 0429
> 3112 0625 0113 0433
>
> I need to look up the values corresponding to today's date, i.e.
> ${DATETIME:0:4}, and pass them into an Asterisk variable. I could put the
> data into MySQL and use the MySQL() command, but that almost seems like
> overkill, especially because the data is so small and is static (and MySQL
> is not currently installed on the Asterisk box).
>
> Is there an easy was to store this in a file and lookup directly in the
> Dialplan? Is there a Linux application that I could pass in a System()
> command to do it?
You could write a Perl script to store the data in whatever format
you need into a file and another Perl script to search and respond
however you require
JP
