Re^3: How do I get expect.pm to ignore special characters?

Well you could return values:

$ssh->expect(5, '#') or return "ERROR"

You can also lower the amount of timeout, 60 is ok while you make the initial handshake connection, but you must have a WAN if you need to wait 60 seconds for the other prompt. Any way; and at the end of the subroutine:

return "OK";
}
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Then in your main loop, you pick that value up:

for my $server (@servers) {
  # do your thing with $server
  $rc = change_password($server);
  if($rc eq "ERROR"){ die "PANIC for $server"}
 
}
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