Hi all

I am having trouble with the below code. Instead of waiting for the prompt which looks something like '1>', each of the lines in the file is being sent without waiting for the prompt. If I take it out of the foreach loop, and explicitly

$exp->send

$exp->expect

for each line, then it works fine. But, I need to get it to send each line of the file, wait for the prompt, send the next line, rinse, repeat.

It seems that perl is not waiting for the $exp->expect to be true before looping to next. How can I fix this? Thanks. 


#now send each line of the $isqlcommandfile to isql
foreach my $line (<ISQLCOMMANDFILE>) {
 #usleep(4000);
 chomp $line;
 $exp->send("$line\n");
 $exp->expect(2000, '-re', '\d+\> ') if (! $line=~m/^\s*exit\s*$/i);
}
$exp->soft_close();

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In reply to problems using Expect.pm in foreach loop by gg48gg

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