From: <RGi...@a1...> - 2002-05-24 07:48:46
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> I'm running expect to talk to a script and I have the questions > (that the script asks) and the answers. I am running it inside a > foreach loop based on number of questions/answers. > > Like so: > > $exp = Expect->spawn('script'); > > foreach $qa (0..$#qaarray) > { > $exp->expect($timeout, $qaarray[$qa]) > $exp->send($aarray[$qa]); > } > > > The time between when an answer is given and when a new > question is asked varies. In some cases it may take an > hour and in others less than 1 second. The problem I have > is that expect timesout and does a hard_close after some > amount of time. Yes, after the amount of time you specify in $timeout... > I need it to wait for the next question > no matter how long it takes. I've read the docs and tried > a lot of different things. Really? So you obviously didn't notice this in the docs: "Given $timeout in seconds Expect will wait for $object's handle to produce one of the match_patterns. Due to o/s limitations $timeout should be a round number. If $timeout is 0 Expect will check one time to see if $object's handle contains any of the match_patterns. If $timeout is undef Expect will wait forever for a pattern to match." Hope this helps, Roland -- RGi...@cp... |