I am trying to learn how to use Expect in my perl scripts and I am doing a very poor job of it so far. I am hoping I can get some help from the monks. I have written two very basic programs just to see if I can figure out how this works and I guess I am just not getting it.

Here is the first program Expect_Test 

use strict;
use Expect;

my $expect = Expect->spawn("/usr/foo/namer") or die "$!\n";
print $expect "PrimeLord\n";
my $result = $expect->expect(15,"name:") or die "Didn't get what I was
+ looking for:\n";

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Like I said a very simple script that just calls another script namer. Here are the contents of the namer script. 

use strict;
use Expect;

print "What is your name: ";
chomp (my $name = <STDIN>);
if ($name =~ /primelord/i) {
       print "Hello PrimeLord!\n";
} else {
       print "Hello $name! I don't know you!\n";
}

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So I would expect when I run Expect_Test for it to spawn namer and pass it PrimeLord when it sees What is your name. However what happens is namer is called. I see PrimeLord printed to STDOUT. Then I see What is your name: printed to the screen and then the program just exits. I thought maybe I was printing the answer to my expect too soon, but even when I move it after the expect line it didn't work. This seems like it should be very simple, but I just can't get it. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!

-Prime

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