[expect] strange error (re)

[Sektor van Skijlen]

couldn't compile regular expression pattern: quantifier operand invalid
while executing
"expect -nobrace >|#S {} -re {*
} { lappend response_line $expect_out(buffer); exp_continue }"
invoked from within
"expect {
{>|#S} {}
-re "*\n" { lappend response_line $expect_out(buffer); exp_continue }
}"


The fragment of source code, which invokes this error:

set response_line {}

expect {
{>|#S} {}
-re "*\n" { lappend response_line $expect_out(buffer); exp_continue }
}

What I wanted to do is:

If ">|#S" received, stop reading. Otherwise append read line to the
response_line list and continue reading.

I can read the "end of response" in two ways: one of them is the string
above, another is a line, which looks as follows (the response also begins
from this string):
------ |-------------------------------------

(it is not constant the number of the first dashes - it depends on "something")

A very strange thing is that, when I had such pattern:
{-+ \|-+}

It matches the beginning of the response, then the cited above code is
executed. When there was {-+ \|-+} in the first expect's rule, the error
message was the same.

Or maybe somebody knows more appropriate way to do this?


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[Thomas Matthews]

couldn't compile regular expression pattern: quantifier operand invalid
while executing
"expect -nobrace >|#S {} -re {*
} { lappend response_line $expect_out(buffer); exp_continue }"
invoked from within
"expect {
{>|#S} {}
-re "*\n" { lappend response_line $expect_out(buffer); exp_continue }
}"

Are you sure you are posting to the correct newsgroup?
I couldn't find these identifiers in the _standard_ C++ specification:
expect
lappend
response_line
$
expect_out
exp_continue

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