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Re: enforce timeout in loop

by perlmonkey (Hermit)
on Sep 22, 2003 at 05:28 UTC ( [id://293088]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to enforce timeout in loop

Follow the example in the perldoc page for alarm. Change your for loop to look like: 
foreach my $sleepval (@sleepvals) {
  eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die };
    alarm 3;
    sleep($sleepval);
  };
  print strftime "%H:%M:%S", localtime;
  print "\n";
}

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Re: Re: enforce timeout in loop
by semio (Friar) on Sep 22, 2003 at 15:48 UTC
    ++perlmonkey. beautiful. This is exactly what I was looking for.

    cheers, -dave

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