Trouble using Telnet in perl? - perl

Question

I'm having some trouble send commands and receiving text/data from the telnet connection that I set up.
#!perl
#Telnet.pl
use Net::Telnet;
# Create a new instance of Net::Telnet,
my $telnetCon = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 20,
Dump_Log => "dump.log",
Input_Log => "infile.log",
Output_log => "output.log",
Prompt => '/\$ $/') or die "Could not make connection.";
# Connect to the host of the users choice
$telnetCon->open('');
#get username and password from user
my $CXusername = '';
my $CXpassword = '';
my $task = '50104'; # Get this input from the search
# Recreate the login
# Wait for the login: message and then enter the username
$telnetCon->waitfor(match => '/login:/i');
# this method adds a \n to the end of the username, it mimics hitting the enter key after entering your username
$telnetCon->print($CXusername);
$telnetCon->waitfor(match => '/Password:/i');
# does the same as the previous command but for the password
$telnetCon->print($CXpassword);
#Wait for the login successful message
$telnetCon->waitfor(match => '/$/');
$telnetCon->cmd("viewtask 50104");
$telnetCon->cmd(" ");
$telnetCon->cmd(" ");
#output = $telnetCon->cmd("who");
print #output;
($output) = $telnetCon->waitfor(match => '/$/');
print "Output: ",$output;
if($searched =~ /MODIFIED files in Task $_[1] :(.*?)The/s){
# to Logout of the telnet connection
$telnetCon->print("exit");
#return the modified data
return $1;
}
Tell me if the question doesn't make sense, I'll try and reword it.
So this is the telnet view. I get stuck on the first image when i enter the $telnetCon->cmd("viewtask 50140"). I want to get to the second image and continue entering commands into my telnet session.

Answer 1

The Net::Telnet cmd method writes your command (with a \n appended) and waits for the prompt. this is incompatible with your program's waiting for input to complete output.
I think in your case you would want to use a combination of print and getlines and/or waitfor to get this to work