Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Please help

[John S. <j.d...@re...>]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, John van V. wrote:

> $first_rem_session_string = $xpt_ob -> expect ( 5, /.*/ ) ;

If you want to match on a regex you'd say

$first_rem_session_string = $xpt_ob -> expect ( 5, '-re', '.*' ) ;

or

$first_rem_session_string = $xpt_ob -> expect ( 5, '-re', qr(.*) ) ;

(as documented in the Friendly Manual ;-)


hth

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