Get Digit String issue

Hey Team, I am looking for the proper way to do this if the way I am doing it is not correct.
I use a get digit string and play a menu prompt to a caller
Press 1
Press 2
Press 3
Etc...
But if the caller presses a 5 digit code they get a super secret special menu. All this works great. When i do the debug I see the digits being passed to the sCED variable I use. 99% of all callers are not pressing the pound key after thier key press so the get digit string timeout brance gets used.
I have fixed this in two ways. I use an if statement in the timeout to check if sCED has a value I then send it to another if statement for routing to the various menu options.
THe out way I fixed this is I just send every call which hits the time out on to be processed and evaluated.
Am I doing this correctly? It all works fine but I wanted to make sure there are no gotchas or better ways to accomplish this.
Having the caller pass both a single digit and 5 digits is why I use the get digit string instead of a menu step.
See screen shot. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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A couple of suggestions in the form of pseudo code (all in the name of effeciency):
label main_menu_resetset counter = 0label main_menuced = get digit string(timeout 3 sec, inter-digit 1 sec, no terminating or cancel digit, no retries) successful label main_menu_success if (ced == super_secret_key) true goto super_secret_section false switch (ced) case "1" /* do menu option 1 tasks */ case N /* do menu option N tasks */ default goto main_menu_failure timeout goto main_menu_success unsuccessful label main_menu_failure play prompt (invalid) if (++counter > maximum) true goto customer_service false play prompt (try_again) goto main_menu
Questions to ask yourself about your approach and this new approach:
How many steps do I have in this solution (not counting branches)?
How many steps for best case scenario execution?
"" worst case scenario?
How easy is it to change the super secret key (and length of key)?
How easy is it to add/remove menu options (steps required to add)?
At how many points are you addressing the failures in your menu?

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