RE: [Expectperl-discuss] Help !!

[BLACKSTONE, J. D. <jda...@ci...>]

  Hi, Roopa.  This is more of a general Perl issue than a Perl expect issue.

  Perl comes with a wealth of online documentation, which you can access
with the perldoc program, or also at http://www.perldoc.com/ .  I believe
you'll find the perlretut manpage available at
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlretut.html covers what you need.
If you've never done regular expressions before, you'll want to start at the
beginning (and maybe even read perlrequick first at
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlrequick.html); otherwise, just
search for "multi-line" on that page.

  To build your Perl skills, I emphatically recommend that you read through
the documentation in the order given at
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perl.html , and purchase the "Llama
book" _Learning Perl_ by Randall Schwartz et. al., and the "Camel book"
_Programming Perl_ by Larry Wall et. al.

jdb


-----Original Message-----
From: Roopa [mailto:ro...@de...] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:21 AM
To: exp...@li...
Subject: [Expectperl-discuss] Help !!


Hi all,

I am new to perl programming and expect and need some help. I want to
compare the output of my API execution with the expected result. How can i
do this ?

My exp->before gives me the output of my test execution which i want to
compare
with another buffer $result. Each of these have several lines. E.g
Hello
World
This is my first program.

How to do this multi line comparison ?