I've been trying to create a module for timing the runtime of my scripts. Well, I had some working code that I am trying to transplant to a module.

This is what I have: 

package Time::SinceStart;

use strict;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);

require Exporter;

our @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT      = qw(getTimeSinceStart);
our @EXPORT_OK   = qw(getTimeSinceStart);
our $VERSION     = 1.0;

my @pagestarttime = ();

sub BEGIN
{
    @pagestarttime = gettimeofday;
}

sub getTimeSinceStart
{
    my @pagestoptime = gettimeofday;
    
    my $seconds = (abs($pagestoptime[0]-$pagestarttime[0]));
    my $decimals = (abs($pagestoptime[1]-$pagestarttime[1]));
    
    return ($seconds, $decimals);
}

1;

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The problem is, I get: 

null: Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /Library/Perl/T
+ime/SinceStart.pm line 24.
null: Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /Library/Perl/T
+ime/SinceStart.pm line 25.

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Lines 24 & 25 are the my $seconds & my $decimals lines.

Now, there probably is a module for this (though I could not find it), but regardless, I'd also like to know what I do wrong. I'm guessing it has to do with global variables (oh, and this is run under mod_perl).

In reply to Finding out how long a script has been running by carthag

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