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author | mame <mame@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2010-04-09 15:04:40 +0000 |
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committer | mame <mame@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2010-04-09 15:04:40 +0000 |
commit | bd623a0915ae63422463ea49651fd73e0426efaa (patch) | |
tree | 7126cfc970386169b4835c56e503c41f43842176 /ext/pty/lib | |
parent | d3e7b990dc096f71a32eb18959503328b78cf2b1 (diff) | |
download | ruby-bd623a0915ae63422463ea49651fd73e0426efaa.tar.gz |
* ext/pty/lib/expect.rb: add rdoc. based on a patch from Luiz Angelo
Daros de Luca in [ruby-core:23464].
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@27274 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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-rw-r--r-- | ext/pty/lib/expect.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ext/pty/lib/expect.rb b/ext/pty/lib/expect.rb index 08191b05b9..50d2fbd363 100644 --- a/ext/pty/lib/expect.rb +++ b/ext/pty/lib/expect.rb @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ $expect_verbose = false class IO + # Reads ios until pattern matches or the timeout is over. It returns + # an array with the read buffer, followed by the matches. If a block is given, + # the result is yielded to the block and returns nil. The optional timeout parameter defines, + # in seconds, the total time to wait for pattern. If it is over of eof is found, it + # returns/yields nil. However, the buffer in a timeout session is kept for the next expect call. + # The default timeout is 9999999 seconds. def expect(pat,timeout=9999999) buf = '' case pat |