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Expect: Reading i/p without waiting for [Enter] Posted by shruthi_21 (shruthi_21), 2 May 2006 In Expect, how can we read a data entered by user without waiting for a Enter key from the keyboardPosted by admin (Graham Ellis), 3 May 2006 It all depends on the buffering of your operating system .... the issue you have come across is that the operating system typically doesn't send text typed in from the shell to expect until a new line is enetered. That's done to give you a chance to correct typing errors.Say, for example, that you were asked to enter your age and you entered 7 backspace 6 2 [enter] - you're 62 but you typed a seven by mistake; you do NOT want expect to act on the 7 nor have to clean up, do you? In exceptional circumstances, you may want to bypass the buffering .... how to do that depends on the operating system you're running, whether you're running through a windows system, etc - not something I can give you a generic answer to based on what you've told us, I'm afraid This page is a thread posted to the opentalk forum
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