Hello fellow monks,
I am using the Expect module (v1.15) to automate a simple telnet process that logs in and sends a sample ping. Now I know I can probably use the Net::Telnet module, but I am using this for a purpose. Here is a snippet of my code (logtext is a simple function writing to a logfile). 
while($perform_step > 0)
{
    if ($tcp_transx_param{$row_ref->[$i]}{$perform_step})
    {
        logtext "Value of step is $perform_step";
        logtext "Sending =>$tcp_transx_param{$row_ref->[$i]}{$perform_
+step}{send}<=";
        $session->send("$tcp_transx_param{$row_ref->[$i]}{$perform_ste
+p}{send}\r");
        $session->expect($expect_timeout, '-re', "$tcp_transx_param{$r
+ow_ref->[$i]}{$perform_step}{expect}") || warn "Did not match at step
+ $perform_step for CollectionID $row_ref->[$i]" . $session -> exp_err
+or();
        logtext "Expecting =>$tcp_transx_param{$row_ref->[$i]}{$perfor
+m_step}{expect}<=";
        if ($session->exp_error())
        {
            logtext "ERROR=>" . $session->exp_error();
            logtext "Closing Session";
            $session->hard_close();
            last;
        }
        else { $perform_step++; }
    }
    else
    {
        $perform_step=0;
        $session->soft_close();
        last;
    }
    logtext "Increasing my step to $perform_step";
}

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The issue I seem to be having is that the while loop continues regardless of the response. It works fine with the correct password but if I use the wrong password, then it continues and reports failure at the wrong step. Please help.

In reply to Help using Expect.pm by gnangia

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