I've got a working version. I'm still not clear on what I did with this that was different from the original, but I went back and wrote it from scratch (I didn't mention that I started with a version that almost worked, then stopped). I didn't copy or paste ANYTHING from the original, I started without sub routines and wrote a simple test, then broke it down into subroutines and got it working. I'll be looking through my old code to see the mistakes once I get time. Here's the working version:

#!/usr/bin/perl

    use Expect;

    our $abi;

    setup();
    sendcmd();

sub setup {
    $cmd = "telnet wogglebug";
    $abi = Expect->new();
    $abi->spawn($cmd);
    $res = $abi->expect(5, "/ #", "not known");
    print "Result: $res\n";
    if ($res != 1) {
        print "Failure to open process.\n";
        exit;
    }
    $before = $abi->before();
    show("Before", $before);
    $after = $abi->after();
    show("After", $after);
    $abi->clear_accum();


    return;
}

sub sendcmd {
    $abi->send("ls\n");
#    print $abi "ls\n";
    $before = $abi->before();
    $after = $abi->after();
    $res = $abi->expect(10, "/ #");
    show("Before command", $before);
    show("After command", $after);
    show("Result", $res);


    return;
}

sub show {
    my ($msg, $data) = @_;
    print "-----------------------\n$msg: $data\n---------------------
+--\n";
    return;
}
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Thanks for the help and when I see what it was that messed up the first version, I'll post it.

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