Re: Conditionals in expect script for create lists

["Phil Shirley" <pshirley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Kyle & Martha.  After using this bit of Expect code for a while
(to find an empty review file) I wondered why it was skipping some empty
files.  I rewrote it as shown below, moving the "Select review file" line
to the top of the loop, so that $count decrements once instead of twice
each time.

# choose an empty review file
set count 80
while {$count > 0} {
   expect "Select review file"  {send "$count"}
   expect {
          "LIST RECORDS" {send "q"}
          "BOOLEAN SEARCH of FILE" {break}
          "Hit 's' to stop checking" {send "s"}
          }
   incr count -1;
}

Phil

> I like Kyle's solution better than mine.  I found that when you find an
> Empty file, it could be in use by someone who has not completed their
> search yet.
>
> Kyle's script works better since it takes into consideration in use
> files,  but I had a problem with it as written:
>
> set count 100
> while {$count > 0} {
>    expect {
>        "LIST RECORDS" {send -h "q"}
>        "BOOLEAN SEARCH of FILE" {break}
>        "Hit 's' to stop checking" {send -h "s"}
>        "Choose one"  {send "$count"}
>       }
>    incr count -1;
> }
>
> The match "Choose one" actually appears on the LIST RECORDS screen also,
> so I changed this script to:
>
> set count 160
> while {$count > 0} {
>    expect {
>        "LIST RECORDS" {send "q"}
>        "BOOLEAN SEARCH of FILE" {break}
>        "Hit 's' to stop checking" {send "s"}
>        "Select review file"  {send "$count"}
>       }
>    incr count -1;
> }
>
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
pshirley@xxxxxxxxxx