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

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

> 
> $item could be like: [yes] or [no] or [/home/efudd]  etc., etc.
> 

	..and a regexp of /[yes]/ will match a letter that is not a y, e, or s
(perldoc perlre). I found myself getting frustrated trying to track down bugs
induced by strings which contained dots or question marks, which have special
meaning in perl regexps - thus the default literal matching behavior of
non-archaic versions of Expect. If you don't use '-re' you don't have to
worry about regexp meanings of characters, and the behavior is more
predictable.
	That said, if you really want to use a regexp, try setting
$Expect::Exp_Internal=1 so you can see what/how the regexp is actually
matching.

	Austin