Re: [Expectperl-discuss] trying to capture multiple matches across many lines

[Noah <ad...@en...>]

Bradford Ritchie wrote:
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Noah <ad...@en... 
> <mailto:ad...@en...>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      >
>      > I'm assuming the output is coming from a remote connection to
>     something,
>      > not a command run at the shell...  I'm pretty sure expect can do
>     that,
>      > but I would need more details.  Can you give some sample output
>     and an
>      > example of what you consider a "match" that you want to save?  You'll
>      > probably end up calling expect over and over again to get each
>     match, so
>      > that means you may also need to look for something that tells you
>     when
>      > to stop looking.
>      >
> 
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     okay I am attempting to grab the interface and Unit number like
>     t1-1/1/0.0 for each logical interface to t1-1/1/0.9, the Input rate,
>     Output rate, and the remote IP address out of the following output:
> 
> 
> 
>     sample output - yup the results from a JUNOS CLI command.
> 
> 
> *Sounds like you really only need expect to do the remote 
> connection/login part.  If it were me, I would do the minimum with 
> expect to just send the command and capture all of the output to an 
> array (ie. one call to expect, using the prompt as the "match" string), 
> and then parse the output the way you would normally parse an input 
> stream, like with a foreach loop or something.
> 




is there a way to capture the output with perl-expect into an array?

Cheers,
noah