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Sara Amato wrote: > Are you using the log for anything? You can simply not log and not > worry about all the extra characters, and have Expect look for regular > values you see on the screen. E.g. > > > send "03" > expect "LOCATION" > send "=" > expect "LOCATION =" > send -h "ares\r" > > We are using Expect & perl to create new materials lists off of our III > system and output to the web - see > http://library.bowdoin.edu/cataloging/new/ > > Would be happy to share scripts, with the caveat that I'm NOT a > programmer, and there are most likely more elegant ways to do things > than I have! > > Kenneth R. Irwin wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I just started tinkering with Expect to talk to our OPAC, and I'm finding >> that when I look at the resulting log files I get a lot of garbage >> characters eg: >> [H[2J[1;11H*** INNOPAC >> (for more see log: http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/logfile.txt ) After taking a quick look at the codes, I am guessing that this regexp should remove all of the ANSI escape codes from your data: s/\033\[.*?[a-z]//ig; It looks like the codes start with ESC[ followed optionally by some numbers and/or punctuation, and are terminated by a single letter. -- William Wueppelmann Electronic Systems Specialist Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM) http://www.canadiana.org/