Re: [Expectperl-discuss] () matching in -re expects

[Roland G. <rgi...@cp...>]

Yes there is. Read the perldoc Expect and look for "matchlist()"...

Hope this helps,
Roland

On 4/25/07, sp...@nc... <sp...@nc...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've used the "real" expect for a number of years, and now find myself
> having to do some stuff w/ perl-expect.
>
> Is there a way to capture text w/ () in the expect of perl like you can
> w/ expect?
>
> For example the following bit of expect code will grab the hostname of
> the device you've logged into and store it in a variable called hostname:
> expect {
>  -re "\n+(.*}>"
> }
> set hostname $expect_out(1,string)
>
> The $expect_out(1,string) grabs what is inside the () in the expect
> statement. Like a backrefrence \1 in a regexp.
>
> Is there a way to do the same thing w/ perl expect?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Sean
>
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