Automate telnet using Hummingbird HostExplorer and interact with the presentation space.

The Win32::HostExplorer module provides an object-oriented interface and methods to interact with the HostExplorer presentation space.

use Win32::HostExplorer;

# Create new instance of HostExplorer my $obj = Win32::HostExplorer->new( debug => 3, logfile => $log_file );

# Print the first line, last line
print $obj->title_row(), "\n";
print $obj->status_row(), "\n";

# Retrieve lines 2 and 7 through 12 my @array = $obj->show_lines( 2, 7..12 );

# Search lines 7 through 9 for the pattern $obj->match_pattern( '.*money\s+(\S+)', 7..9 );

# Position cursor on row 7, column 11 my ( $row, $col ) = $obj->cursor_pos( 7, 11 );

# Send text to row/column 7,1
$obj->field_input( 7, 1, 'raw silk' );

# Execute function key 'F1' within terminal $obj->f1();

This module requires Perl 5.8.8.817 (or later), Win32::OLE, and IO::File:

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Win32::HostExplorer

You can also look for information at:

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-HostExplorer

CPAN Request Tracker:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Win32-HostExplorer

AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:

http://annocpan.org/dist/Win32-HostExplorer

CPAN Ratings:

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Win32-HostExplorer

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 George Kevin Hathorn

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.