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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Equivalent to Perl's and Bash's "=~" Operator? Post 302676469 by mrm5102 on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 03:41:33 PM
Old 07-24-2012
Hey Corona, thanks for the reply.

Right, sorry didn't mean to call it the contains operator, I was just trying to simplify... Shoulda said REGEX or Pattern Matching.

But anyway, I just checked out your link and I think that may be what I need. I'll give it a try and post back if it worked.

Thanks for dulling down my frustrations a bit lol...
I couldn't find a darn thing in google for Tcl or Expect that showed anything other then an exact match in an if statement or greater/less thens...


Thanks Again,
Matt

---------- Post updated at 03:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:33 PM ----------

Hey Again Corona... Victory!

Thanks that worked..!

Here's what it should look like for anyone with a similar problem:
Basically it loops through the output from the previous send command, line by line.
Code:
set myString "foo"
:....
:.....
    # Loop through the previous send command's output line-by-line
    foreach line [split $expect_out(buffer) "\n"] {
        # If the current line contains $myString, then...
        if {[regexp ".*$myString.*" $line]} {
                puts "FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR!"
        }
    }

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NAME

       american-english-insane - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/american-english-insane is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
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SEE ALSO

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HISTORY

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       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
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