Matching question

[dod123]

Hello all;

I am tring to match this expression:

[mcilBA0(tasks)]/acec/tasks>

I tried many posibility and I am not sure how to do it correctly.

Thanks.

 

[stevexff]

What are you trying to match it against? We need to know the thing you are looking for, and maybe some sample data records...

 

[dod123]

This is a prompt i recieve from a unix server i am telnting to.
When using the NET:TELNET module i need to enter the prompt

 

[icrf]

What he means is we need some other sample prompts, different ones that match the pattern you're looking for and different ones that don't. You can't match anything without a pattern and you can't get a pattern from a single record. More data, please.

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[dod123]

I not sure i was understood corectly;
This is an example from the CPAN TELNET moule:

use Net::Telnet ();
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
Prompt => '/bash\$ $/');
$t->open("sparky");
$t->login($username, $passwd);
@lines = $t->cmd("who");
print @lines;


the prompt my server request is:
[mcilBA0(tasks)]/acec/tasks> instead of bash$ in the example.

Thanks.

 

[stevexff]

Try

Prompt => '^\[mcilBA0\(tasks)]/acec/tasks>$'

as you need to escape the opening [ and ( in the regex. I don't think you need to escape the closing ones...

 

[dod123]

still recieving a time out error.

 

[stevexff]

Sorry, left off the starting and ending slashes

Prompt => '/^\[mcilBA0\(tasks)]/acec/tasks>$/'

 

[MikeLacey]

You may also have a space after the path in the prompt.

Prompt => '/^\[mcilBA0\(tasks)]/acec/tasks>\s*$/'

Mike

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but to really foul things up -
you require a man Mike.

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