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

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:01:51 +0100 (BST)
Stephen <S.J...@du...> wrote:

> 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?

Yes, I understood that idiom to be acceptable too, although as someone
pointed out the quotes may introduce problems.

> 
> 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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