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

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

So in case anyone is interested in the answer, it appears \b means "x0B" or "vertical tab" in ascii.  I was able to match it with either \013 (octal) or \x0b (hex)

On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> 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
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> 
> 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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