Re: [Expectperl-discuss] to how match \b in the buffer

[Jo R. <jr...@ne...>]

> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jo Rhett <jr...@ne...> wrote:
>> I'm seeing a scenario where talking with an Accedian NID unit I receive \b
>> in the output from the unit.  Unfortunately \b means "word boundary" in perl
>> regex-land.  How can I match this character?  (it is a single character and
>> not two)

On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> It's been a while since I've Expect-ed, but here is an off the cuff idea:
> s/[\000-\037]/ /g


Good idea. Curiosity -- any way to know how the debug output chooses to represent characters?  Is \b likely to mean \011 or some such?  How about if I wanted to match the exact character?  I only see it in the exp_internal() output...

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