Re: [Expectperl-discuss] variable length wait times

[R. H. <rhu...@ih...>]

On Sun, 26 May 2002 22:25:40 +0100
Stephen Quinney <st...@ja...> wrote:

> 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);

Sorry I missed this important distinction.  It says it right there
in the man page too....
Thanks.


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