Possibly overkill for this situation but in a more general case an event loop like POE (or AnyEvent or EV or Mojo::IOLoop or . . .) might be useful (especially if you're going to need to handle other timing, or react to outside IO events (network traffic, IO from files, . . .). You'd call your routine in an event handler, then after it returns request to be delivered the same event to yourself after the requisite delay (starting things off immediately sending yourself the event).

Edit: Mojo version. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use 5.032;
use Mojo;
use Mojo::IOLoop;
use Mojo::Log;

my $log = Mojo::Log->new;

my $interval = 0.25;

my $ctr = 1;
sub callback {
  my $loop = shift;
  $log->debug( qq{: Timer, counter } . $ctr++ );
  $loop->timer( $interval => \&callback ) if $ctr <= 5;
}

Mojo::IOLoop->timer( $interval => \&callback );

Mojo::IOLoop->start unless Mojo::IOLoop->is_running;

exit 0;

__END__

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In reply to Re: Call function no more than every 0.1 seconds by Fletch
in thread Call function no more than every 0.1 seconds by zapoi

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