Expect matches actual command instead of output

[bryan3k]

I have an issue where expect is matching the actual remote command instead of the output. The code is:

send "show card 1 | match down\r"
expect {
"down" {write_card_fail $host}
}

The problem is expect matches the "down" from the command and not the actual output of the command. Anyway to prevent this?

Thanks.

 

[Bong]

What is the output?

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Bob Rashkin

 

[bryan3k]

That's the thing, sometimes there was no output but the expect command would match because the word "down" was in the command. I did find what I needed though by using the parenthesis to match newline and put things in the expect_out array. For example (this is just off the top of my head for now):

expect {
-re "(/n)(.*down)" {set x1 expect_out(2,string)}
}

This way expect doesn't start looking for a match on "down" until the newline is seen.