Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Gathering user input

[Roland G. <RGi...@a1...>]

> I'm trying to write a Perl script that will record user input to a 
> program to allow that input to be "played" back and fed into the 
> program multiple
> times.  I'm sure I can do this with Expect, but I'm dropping my clue
> somewhere along the way.  I've tried a number of combinations like:

There is a utility for Tcl/Expect called 'autoexpect' that does this, 
maybe you should just port that to perl.  The problem with this task is 
that you have to determine what the program prompt looks like so you 
know when to send the next command.  This often means that you have to 
put the script together by hand, so you also could just log the session 
to a logfile and do that by hand, pasting the appropriate strings into 
some send/expect template.

> Any pointers of where I'm going wrong would be greatly appreciated!

Your code looks good in principle and should work.  Have you tried 
setting $Expect::Exp_Internal = 1 to see what Expect is doing 
internally?  $Expect::Debug could also be of help...

Hope this helps,

Roland
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