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# 15  
Old 02-07-2012
It works, you are awesome! But i still have a couple of questions Smilie
- what is \u001b?
- is there any way to flush $expect_out(buffer) in order to cut unnessesary output off?
# 16  
Old 02-07-2012
\u001b produces the unicode string for the <ESC> (hex 1B) character.

As most ANSI excape sequences start with <ESC>[ deleting this sequence (and the next 2 following characters) should remove most VT100/ANSI sequences from the string.

Not sure what you are trying to achieve by flushing the buffers expect "*" will match everything out of the buffer but no further expects will find anything. Perhaps a "grep -v <string>" in the command chain might be closer to what you want.

Another option, is to write the matched output to a local find and use unix local *nix tools to cut out what you don't want. I generally prefer this cause I find the *nix tools much easier than expect/tcl for this sort of thing.
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