Re: Expect script

[Adam Brin <abrin at brynmawr dot edu>]

Hi,
	we've had similar problems with expect, where it just dies for no 
reason.  I've found moving to Perl's "Expect" module has alleviated all 
of them.  You might consider giving it a try:

http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.15/Expect.pod

- adam

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Yow Wei Chui wrote:
> We are experimenting with using expect to automate Create Lists. The
> script stops at the point where the review file is found and the command
> sends out string0. Expect does not seem to be able to interpret the file
> number and simply stops.
>
> ...
> expect "\ Set Range:"
> send "\\"
> expect "Search records contained in another review file?"
> send "y"
> expect "Choose one <1-240,F,B,Q>"
> send "f"
> expect -re "(.*(08\[0-2])|07\[8-9]) > jennifer/closed stacks\n"
> send $expect_out(0,string)
> ...
> send "S"
> expect "What name would you like to give this file of records?"
> sleep 5
> ...
>
>
> Does anyone has any idea of how to resolve this problem? Any help is
> much appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Regards
> YOW, Wei Chui (Ms)
> National University of Singapore Libraries
>
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