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expect_expectl (no version information, might be only in CVS) expect_expectl -- Waits until the output from a process matches one
of the patterns, a specified time period has passed, or an EOF is seen
Descriptionmixed expect_expectl ( resource expect, array cases, array &match )
Waits until the output from a process matches one of the patterns,
a specified time period has passed, or an EOF is seen.
If match is provided, then it is filled with the result of search.
The matched string can be found in match[0].
The match substrings (according to the parentheses) in the original pattern can be found
in match[1], match[2], and so
on, up to match[9] (the limitation of libexpect).
Parameters
- expect
An Expect stream, previously opened with
expect_popen().
- cases
An array of expect cases. Each expect case is an indexed array,
as described in the following table:
Table 1. Expect Case Array | Index Key | Value Type | Description | Is Mandatory | Default Value |
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| 0 | string | pattern, that will be matched against the output from the stream | yes | | | 1 | mixed | value, that will be returned by this function, if the pattern matches | yes | | | 2 | integer |
pattern type, one of:
EXP_GLOB,
EXP_EXACT
or
EXP_REGEXP
| no | EXP_GLOB |
Examples
Example 1. expect_expectl() example <?php
// Copies file from remote host:
ini_set ("expect.timeout", 30);
$stream = fopen ("expect://scp user@remotehost:/var/log/messages /home/user/messages.txt", "r");
$cases = array (
array (0 => "password:", 1 => PASSWORD),
array (0 => "yes/no)?", 1 => YESNO)
);
while (true) {
switch (expect_expectl ($stream, $cases))
{
case PASSWORD:
fwrite ($stream, "password\n");
break;
case YESNO:
fwrite ($stream, "yes\n");
break;
case EXP_TIMEOUT:
case EXP_EOF:
break 2;
default:
die ("Error has occurred!\n");
}
}
fclose ($stream);
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