Regular expressions in expect

Question

I just started learning expect scripting.I have been trying to extract the following from my output:

core.4046140998.01.10.133211

with an e

Answer 1

You have missed a . after \.:

^(core)\..*(\*)$

\. matches a literal . and . matches any single character.

Or you can use the non-greedy version:

^(core)\.[^*]*(\*)$