From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-02-19T19:11:33+09:00
Subject: Re: expect.rb vs Expect (Tcl)...

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "expect.rb vs Expect (Tcl)..."
>     on 02/02/19, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
>
> |Are there plans to improve this funtionality to allow one to expect on
> |many patterns, performing actions as appropriate?
>
> Don't expect too much for 36 lines of code.  Here's my own version of

No, but if there were plans it would be silly to duplicate work... :-)

> expecter, that waits for many patterns.
>
        [...]
> Usage:
>
> expect = Expecter.new
> expect.on(/NO CARRIER/) do
>   exit 1
> end
> expect.on(/Exit/) do
>   exit 1
> end
        [...]
> f = open("|tail -n 0 -f /var/log/messages")
> dial
> expect.wait(f)

That is exactly what I need.  I think I will learn quite a bit by
studying this one, too.  Thank you.  Can this go into 1.[78], please?
        Hugh
>