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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Wait()</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Asterisk™: The Future of Telephony" /><link rel="up" href="asterisk-APP-B.html" title="Appendix B. Application Reference" /><link rel="prev" href="asterisk-APP-B-240.html" title="VoiceMailMain()" /><link rel="next" href="asterisk-APP-B-243.html" title="WaitExten()" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Wait()</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asterisk-APP-B-240.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. Application Reference</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asterisk-APP-B-243.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="asterisk-APP-B-242"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>Wait() — Waits for a specified number of seconds</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><a id="I_programlisting_tt2510"></a><pre class="programlisting">Wait(<em class="replaceable"><code>seconds</code></em>)</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id4202069"></a><h2></h2><p><a id="I_indexterm_tt2511" class="indexterm"></a>Waits for the specified number of
<em class="replaceable"><code>seconds</code></em>. You can pass fractions of a second.
For example, setting <em class="replaceable"><code>seconds</code></em> to <code class="literal">1.5</code> would make the dialplan wait 1.5 seconds
before going on to the next priority in the dialplan.</p><a id="I_programlisting_tt2512"></a><pre class="programlisting">; wait 1.5 seconds before playing the prompt
exten => s,1,Answer()
<span class="strong"><strong>exten => s,2,Wait(1.5)</strong></span>
exten => s,3,Background(enter-ext-of-person)</pre></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="asterisk-APP-B-240.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="asterisk-APP-B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="asterisk-APP-B-243.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">VoiceMailMain() </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WaitExten()</td></tr></table></div><div xmlns="" id="svn-footer"><hr /><p>You are reading <em>Asterisk: The Future of Telephony</em> (2nd Edition for Asterisk 1.4), by Jim van Meggelen, Jared Smith, and Leif Madsen.<br />
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