Re: [Expectperl-discuss] A Problem With Use of regular expression with expect.

[Bryan B. <br...@bu...>]

> Hi All,
>
> This is the string I am passing to the expect
> "Do you want to uninstall depot \w+ from \w+ which is dependent"
>
> But, I am not getting why it is failling to match following line which
> is printed on the terminal.
> "Do you want to uninstall depot VRTSvxfs from slpam09 which is dependent"
>
> Basically, If I remove the regular expression strings from the inputed
> string to expect ie. remove \w+ with the exact word, then it is working
> fine. I am not getting what I have done wrong.
>
> Please help.
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  PART OF THE CODE <<<<<<<<<
>     push (@match_patterns, "Do you want to uninstall depot \w+ from \w+
> which is dependent" ) ;
>     $functions[$#functions+1] = \&send_yes ;
>

Try single quotes.  I think perl will enterpret "\w+" as "w+".

Hope that helps.


Bryan
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