From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-09-17T08:09:48+09:00
Subject: Re: expect.rb in 1.8.2

In article <5d4c6124040916141239321053@mail.gmail.com>,
Lennon Day-Reynolds  <rcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
>Phil,
>
>The 'expect.rb' library uses 'select()', which only works for sockets
>on Windows, not regular file handles, IIRC. Looking at the source,
>though, it seems to only work on a single file handle at a time,
>anyway, so I'm not sure what it buys you something like the
>uber-simple version below.
>
>-- 'miniexpect.rb'
>require 'timeout'
>
>class IO
>  def expect(pat, wait=9999999)
>    result = nil
>    buff = ''
>    begin
>      timeout(wait) do
>        c = getc.chr
>        buff << c
>			
>        if pat.match(buff)
>          result = [buff, *mat.to_a[1..-1]]
>        end
>      end
>    rescue Timeout::Error; end
>    
>    if block_given?
>      yield result
>    else
>      return result
>    end
>  end
>end
>--
>
>-- 
>Lennon
>rcoder.net
>
>