inserting expect into perl loop - perl

Question

I have the following script that runs a command and puts the data in a DB. I need to account for the possibility of being asked for a password "password:" some of the time. How do I wrap an expect call into this?
#!/usr/software/bin/perl
use strict;
use DatabaseLib;
use Data::Dumper;
use Expect;
#Connect to database
my $dbh = DBI->connect($DB_CONNECT_STRING, $DB_USER, $DB_PASSWORD, { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 })
or die "failed to connect to database: $DB_CONNECT_STRING";
my $expect = Expect->new;
my %burtHash;
my #cols = qw/date_create sub_by impact date-lastmod lastmod-by bug_rel case_score state s p type subtype subteam found_by target_release/;
my #burtInfo = `mycommand`;
my $timeout = 20;
my $password = "password";
while(my $ele = shift(#burtInfo)){
my ($index, #data) = split(/\s+/, $ele);
for my $i(0 .. $#cols){
$burtHash{$index}->{$cols[$i]} = shift(#data);
}
for my $id (keys %burtHash){
my %burt_details;
for my $col (keys %{$burtHash{$id}} ) {
$burt_details{$col} = $burtHash{$id}->{$col};
}
if ( $id =~ /\d+/) {
burt_update(
$dbh,
$id ,
\%burt_details,
);
}
}
}
I think I just need to put in something like this and call it, but i'm not sure where/how:
$expect->expect($timeout,
[ qr/password:/i, #/
sub {
my $self = shift;
$self->send("$password\n");
exp_continue;
}
]);

Answer 1

You're not using $expect anywhere there. You have to run your command via $expect->spawn so that your Expect object can handle things. And then you'll need some way of gathering its output (I'm thinking using $expect->log_file(...) to set the log to a string filehandle or something).
Once you're using $expect->spawn, then you can insert your password check. But there's no way you can do this with qx (the backticks).