Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Strange time out and hard close

[Stephen <S.J...@du...>]

It seems to me that the only problem here is that you are using the key,
value pair system like a hash. When i want to do a regexp match i always
do  something like:

        $obj->expect(undef,'-re',$item);

this works for me. I'm not sure it's intended to work with the => is it?

Stephen

>In my previous post I noted that I was seeing this which
>I only saw when I used $obj->expect(undef, -re => "$item");
>and this showed up
>Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/btools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Expect.pm line 1388
>
>
>If I use this I have no problems:
>$obj->expect(undef, $item);
>
>
>So what's different about the code path for those two that causes one to fail?
>
>Essentially that's all the code there is, it waits for a string which is
>a "key"  value and provides the corresponding "value" value. It almost
>appears as if the -re idiom is not respecting the undef for the timeout
>value and therefore is not waiting indefinitely. 


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