Re: [Expectperl-discuss] variable length wait times

[Stephen Q. <st...@ja...>]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:01:26PM -0700, ex...@ih... wrote:

> On another topic I think that the case when $timeout is undef
> isn't working properly.  i.e. I think it's getting defined
> anyway but it's defined to the expect expression.  I think something is
> getting shifted off but shouldn't be.  I was seeing under debug
> that it was trying to subtract (line 612) using the expect string.

I wonder if what you are doing here is

$t->expect(,'-re',$pattern); 

or

$t->expect('-re',$pattern);

instead of 

$t->expect(undef,'-re',$pattern);

if you want an undefined time out, i.e. it waits forever to match the
pattern,  you need to state that specifically.

Stephen