Re: trouble with expect script

At 2007-08-23 09:55PM, "dbrett7@gmail.com" wrote:
>  Below is the error message I am getting.  What I am trying to do is:
>  if the "expect" in the if statement is true then do the lines up to
>  the "else" statement.  This was another headache. trying to get the
>  brackets to expects liking.  Gave up and took them out, for now.

Can't do that.  You need to learn about the very few syntax rules of Tcl
(which expect extends).  Read this page a couple of times:
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/Tcl.htm

Better yet, get the Exploring Expect book:  http://wiki.tcl.tk/105

[...]
>  Below is the actual code it is complaining about :
>  while {1} {
>          if {$(expect -exact "--More--") == 1}
>                  expect "*"
>                  send " "
>           else   break


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