I have to agree with RaduH that I do not understand the problem. Based on the sample output I'm not even sure if I understand why you are using a Regex. If you know all the prompts you will get then you could pass an array in instead and then check to see what you matched against. Or if you know the order just specify the one you expect (e.g. 'What is the UNIX username').

In Re: Expect question I gave some example code that might help you out. I'll repeat the relevant portion here. 

print $expect_instance "$username}\r";
( $which, $why, $match, $before, $after) = $expect_instance->expect( $
+timeout, 'Password:');
if( ! $which ) { myerror( 'send the password:'.$why );

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$before is what came before the match, $match is what it matched on (useful if you passed in more than one match candidate), and $after is what came after the match. Note that $before and $after are strings and they may contain newlines..
If you want to do multiple matches then I think just replace 'Password' with e.g. @possible_matches in the example code.

I get the impression you are trying to do things beyond the scope of Expect.pm. You should focus on improving the accuracy of your matches and then performing string operations and/or regexes on $before, $after, and $match if appropriate.

If you are still having issues then could you post some sample input/output that shows the problem and what code you are using.

In reply to Re: Need a solution to Expect.pm 's single line regex matching limitation by Argel
in thread Need a solution to Expect.pm 's single line regex matching limitation by deepblue

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