1 until $WAV->Status(); is perfectly-valid perl; it's using the Statement Modifiers syntax rather than the Compound Statements syntax. I didn't come up with most of that example: except for the for loop at the end, it's verbatim from the Win32::Sound documentation, specifically their EXAMPLE at the end: everything until the ############ was theirs, not mine, and should work. That line, specifically, is saying "loop doing nothing (1 is a noop, in that case) until $WAV->Status() is true"; that status will go true when the wav is done playing.

If it's not working, there's something wrong with your perl installation or Win32::Sound installation on your machine.

Are using Strawberry Perl, ActiveState, cygwin, or WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)? The full output of perl -V (that's a capital V) might help us debug what's going wrong, along with perl -MWin32::Sound -le "print $INC{'Win32/Sound.pm'}; print $Win32::Sound::VERSION".

In reply to Re^4: Playing wav files by pryrt
in thread Playing wav files by merrymonk

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