Hello. I ask for your wisdom again dear monks.

I am trying this:

my $username = 'john.doe';
$username = quotemeta($username);
($prematch,$match) = $session->waitfor(match => '/$username/',
                                            Timeout => 10);

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But I got this error:

Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at (eval 11) line 1, <> l ine 247. ...propagated at testRegex.pl line 128, <> line 247.

It looks like the method is interpreting that I'm passing a variable to the regex, and not a string. I really need to pass the variable, but only the string inside the variable is what the method should get.

The waitfor method comes from the Telnet module.

How do I just pass the string and not the variable?

The idea behind this, is that I got a lot of username to test, and all of them uses the format "name.surname".

Thanks!.

In reply to Problem with regex passed to a hash by oldwarrior32

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