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1.2 KiB
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27 lines
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Expect::Simple is a wrapper around the Expect module which should suffice
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for simple applications. It hides most of the Expect machinery; the Expect
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object is available for tweaking if need be.
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Generally, one starts by creating an Expect::Simple object using new. This
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will start up the target program, and will wait until one of the specified
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prompts is output by the target. At that point the caller should send()
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commands to the program; the results are available via the before, after,
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match_str, and match_idx methods. Since Expect simulates a terminal, there
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will be extra \r characters at the end of each line in the result (on UNIX
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at least). This is easily fixed:
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($res = $obj->before) =~ tr/\r//d;
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@lines = split( "\n", $res );
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This is not done automatically.
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Exceptions will be thrown on error (match with /Expect::Simple/). Errors
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from Expect are available via the error_expect method. More human readable
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errors are available via the error method.
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The connection is automatically broken (by sending the specified
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disconnect command to the target) when the Expect::Simple object is
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destroyed.
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Author: Diab Jerius <djerius@cpan.org>
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Expect-Simple/
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