Hi Monks,

I'm a perl beginner and trying to improve the re-usability of my code

I have a question regarding expect.pm, specifically how to create an abstract expect call.
Take this example:

@expectthese = ("pattern1", "pattern2", "pattern3");
@sendthese = ("string1", "string2", "string3");

$exp->expect($timeout,
        [qr/$expectthese[0]/, sub {
                select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25);
                $exp->send("$sendthese[0]");
                do_stuff...}
        ],
        [qr/$expectthese[1]/, sub {
                $exp->send("$sendthese[1]");
                select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25);
                do_other_stuff...}
        ],
        [qr/$expectthese[2]/, sub {
                $exp->send("$sendthese[2]");
                select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25);
                do_this_stuff...}
        ],
);

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In this example expect simultaneously waits for 3 patterns to occur and then the respective stuff is done... How would I go about creating an abstract Block that would work in above way for @expectthese and @sendthese without pre-defining the amount of elements these arrays have and consequently without knowing how many [qr//,sub {do_stuff;}], blocks are needed?

Thanks in advance

In reply to abstract expect call by georgecarlin

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