Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Help !!

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

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:48:49PM -0400, db...@CT... wrote:
> 
> To affirm what Dave said, all of the examples I ran would indicate that
> "$obj->exp_before()" does in fact work as advertised; i.e., returns
> 'before' part of the last expect call, so I'm not sure either (I tried to
> trick it!  but it kept working as 'expected' ..  :-).

	I think you have nailed the answer, though perhaps unintentionally.
"$obj->exp_before()" is not the same thing as $obj->exp_before(). When you
use double quotes in perl the interpreter will interpolate data from data
structures, but it _will not_ execute subs. Thus "$obj->exp_before()" will
be printed as Expect=GLOB(0x234243)->exp_before() or similar.
	If you want to use it in a string do something like:

print "Before the match: '" . $obj->exp_before() . "'\n";

	Though the original question didn't specify printing inside double
quotes, I would bet $5 that was the problem.

	Austin