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

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:08:02 -0700
Austin Schutz <te...@of...> wrote:

> > 
> > $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

you mean "that is a y, e, or s", [^yes] is the anti-match

> (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.

Whatever the case I still think it should wait forever trying to match.

> 
> 	Austin
>