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Postings from April 2000
Tom Hughes wrote: > > In message <14553.38872.981137.976952@dell.rls.cx> > rspier@pobox.com (Robert Spier) wrote: > > > The Expect.pm interface is similar to TCL's Expect interface (which I > > have never used.), and while it takes a while to get used to it, and > > the documentation is spread out through a few different files and > > examples, it's not ``horrid'' > > I found that the interface was unnatural for simple things like > waiting for a listing strings or for an re. > > Specifically the business of passing '-re' before the strings to > make them match as re's is wierd. I'd have though that assuming an > re would make more sense. > > Equally indicating the match as an index into the list makes for > lots of magic constants in code. I'd rather get back the string > that match, rather than then having to call another routine to get > that. That's why I took the liberty to expand Expect.pm's interface to something more useful half a year ago. Most important, I added multi-match functionality to allow to listen on several datastreams at once. I also added callback-functionality where one gives a regexp (without `-re'!) and a code ref (with parms) that gets called on match, allowing a much more perlish usage. I have sent a patch to the author (Austin Schutz <tex@habit.com>) and he wanted to incorporate it and publish it after some other cleanup, but obviously never got around. I sent him e-mail inquiring about the status a few days ago but haven't received an answer yet. Interested? Maybe I should publish it myself... Roland -- Roland.Giersig@alcatel.at Phone: +43-1-27722-3755 ALCATEL Austria, Dept. RTPM FAX: +43-1-27722-3955 Scheydgasse 41, A-1210 WIEN, Austria (no Kangaroos here!)