thank you one and all for your timely guidance

i have given @cat=qw(cmd),gave a set of commands and now able to achieve what that had been done using expect.pm"

i now would require ur suggestions and guidance on playing around with timers

there are two questions here

1.i have to jus throw an exception when the timeout occurs

2.when i pump for eg...

  
$h = start /@cmd, /$in ,/$out;
$in .= "some command";
pump $h until $out=~/some desired string/i;

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i need to restart or atleast display an error message when the desired string is not got.

i have also seen an implementation $t = timeout(10); $h=start /@cmd, /$in ,/$out; this is to give 10 seconds of time for @cat to start,

$in.="some command";
$t->time(5);

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this seems to be the response time,but gives an error cannot access object time through IPC::Run::Timer,

help me in this regard thanks

In reply to using IPC::Run by perlseeker19

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