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

[Ken I. <fn...@ua...>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:39:45PM -0600, Noah wrote:
>
> 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?

One way would be to receive a string and split it aftwards, e.g.,

    $foo->expect($timeout, 'regex', $some_terminating_pattern);
    my @results = split /\n/, $foo->match();
    ...

Ken

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