Description

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).

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Return Values

Returns value associated with the pattern that was matched.

On failure this function returns: EXP_EOF, EXP_TIMEOUT or EXP_FULLBUFFER

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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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