[SOLVED] Flushing expect_out(buffer) inside a loop
Greetings,
Having an issue with the expect_out(buffer). in a foreach loop through some switches I am grabbing some arp table information and writing it out to output files (1 each for each switch looped through).
The first iteration works fine. the second iteration of the loop writes the output of the first and second switch. Have tried everyway imaginable to me to flush the expect_out(buffer) after each pass.
Question: How to flush the expect_out(buffer) at the end of the loop before lit begins the next loop?
Below is current code.
TIA
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Solved:
removing the
expect "somethingnotfound"
expect *
and simply setting the arpout variable to blank solved the issue so the end of the code now looks like.
Last edited by vbe; 09-04-2012 at 12:00 PM..
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