OK, I solved the problem. Cannot say I understand why it is the way it is, but it works...

I was about to try the few lines proposed by Argel when I noticed that example was using single quotes '...'rather than doubles like I was using "..." Before trying those lines I just replaced my doubles with single quotes and changed nothing else. it worked just fine. I even killed the spaces trailing the colon after password and it still matched just fine.

The string I was trying to match was the "Password:" part of the entire return from the server, which looked like "Connecting to <ip>... \n\rPassword: ". I know using 'Password:' works but I have no idea why. (just went back and read some more about single and double quotes, but I'm still in the fog)

Since this is a slightly different problem, I just wanted to post here my findings and thank you for your replies. I'll ask the next question in a separate thread.

In reply to Re: Expect question by RaduH
in thread Expect question by RaduH

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