Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Multi Line Prompts - Help

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

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:05:00PM -0400, Bradford Ritchie wrote:
> I would use a hex editor to view the log file so that you can see all
> characters literally.  Use "man ascii" to figure out what each one means.
> Sometimes it's a CR or LF character that you're not catching.
> 

	You can also just turn on Exp_Internal. It will print out the
hex codes it sees and tell you what it isn't matching.

> >
> >*Blank line*
> >
> >*Blank line*
> >
> >*Data ONTAP (testserver.domainname.com)*
> >
> >*login:*
         ^^ No space.

> >* *
> >
> >*$which = $exp->expect ( 20, "$user_id\@$host_ip\'s password: ",$Prompt,
> >"login: ","[local_host_name%#]" )*;
         ^^ space.

	If you are looking for a space and there isn't one it will fail.

	Austin