
Jasmine
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Mar 15, 2001, 5:56 AM
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I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't w
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I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong? $/ must be a string, not a regular expression. Awk has to be better for something. :-) Actually, you could do this if you don't mind reading the whole file into memory:
undef $/; @records = split /your_pattern/, <FH>; The Net::Telnet module (available from CPAN) has the capability to wait for a pattern in the input stream, or timeout if it doesn't appear within a certain time.
## Create a file with three lines. open FH, ">file"; print FH "The first line\nThe second line\nThe third line\n"; close FH; ## Get a read/write filehandle to it. $fh = new FileHandle "+<file"; ## Attach it to a "stream" object. use Net::Telnet; $file = new Net::Telnet (-fhopen => $fh); ## Search for the second line and print out the third. $file->waitfor('/second line\n/'); print $file->getline;
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