[Expectperl-discuss] Re: Expect.pm

[Roland G. <r.g...@xs...>]

[I'm CCing this to the discussion list to generate some traffic there :-)]

Dennis Hammer wrote:
> I've got a problem with Expect.pm:
> 
> $router->expect(2, ['Password:', sub {$router->send('password\r'); }]);
>
> the above line seems to match as the password string is sent, but
> seemingly the string is only printed to the tty without sending it to
> the application referenced by $router. Output looks like this:
>
> User Access Verification
> 
> Password: password\r
> 
> which is not quite the thing I wanted to achieve.
> 
> Please tell me what the problem is.

Make this '$router->send("password\r")' and it will work.  
q'' doesn't interpret '\r', so you are missing the end-of-line here.  
Don't be ashamed, it happens to the best of us... :-)

Roland
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