README for expect by A. Ito, 28 October, 1998 Expect library adds IO class a method called expect(), which does similar act to tcl's expect extension. The usage of the method is: IO#expect(pattern,timeout=9999999) where `pattern' is an instance of String or Regexp and `timeout' is Fixnum, which can be omitted. When the method is called without block, it waits until the input which matches the pattern is obtained from the IO or the time specified as the timeout passes. When the pattern is obtained from the IO, the method returns an array. The first element of the array is the entire string obtained from the IO until the pattern matches. The following elements indicates the specific pattern which matched to the anchor in the regular expression. If the method ends because of timeout, it returns nil. When the method is called with block, the array is passed as the block parameter.