Does Ruby expect module support multiple selections?

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Hi,

  I want to use PTY.spawn(some shell program) and then use expect method
to decide what should be inputed next step.
  But my shell program output is not fixed. It depends on the
environment on which it runs. So my question is, does ruby support
multiple expect?
  If so, my code can be like:
  PTY.spawn(my shell program) do |reader, writer, pid|
  reader.expect(/a|b/) do |str|
      if str.match(/a/)
         do something
      else
         do something else
      end
  end

Thanks very much!

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Well I just looked at the source, and you can do exactly this. In fact, expect does you one better, if you use groups in your regexp it yields you those two

e.g.

reader.expect(/(a|b|c)e/) do |whole_string, first_group, second_group, etc|

    ...
end

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Jia Zhang wrote:

Hi,

  I want to use PTY.spawn(some shell program) and then use expect method
to decide what should be inputed next step.
  But my shell program output is not fixed. It depends on the
environment on which it runs. So my question is, does ruby support
multiple expect?
  If so, my code can be like:
  PTY.spawn(my shell program) do |reader, writer, pid|
  reader.expect(/a|b/) do |str|
      if str.match(/a/)
         do something
      else
         do something else
      end
  end

Thanks very much!

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3

Many thanks.
My problem is solved.

Logan Capaldo wrote:

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Jia Zhang wrote:

  reader.expect(/a|b/) do |str|

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Well I just looked at the source, and you can do exactly this. In
fact, expect does you one better, if you use groups in your regexp it
yields you those two

e.g.

reader.expect(/(a|b|c)e/) do |whole_string, first_group,
second_group, etc|

    ...
end

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