Yes, yes, I know there are modules ;) but at this point, it'd be a major pain to rewrite it, and I don't like most of the modules.

I'm using a while in my main code (on an IO::Select) to get the input.

I've got some code which works GREAT by itself... but with small adaptations to make it fit in my bot code it just plain doesn't work; it quits when it gets out of the SIGALRM handler. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

sub after {
    my ($time, $anonsub) = @_;
    do {
        $id = int(rand(10000));
    } while (defined($times{$id}));
    $times{$id} = $time;
    $subs{$id} = $anonsub;
}

sub Alrm {
    for (keys(%times)) {
        if (time() >= $times{$_}) {
            ${subs{$_}}();
            delete $times{$_};
        } elsif (time() < $times{$_}) {
            next;
        }
    }
    alarm 1;
}
$SIG{ALRM} = \&Alrm;
alarm 1;

print gmtime(time()).chr(10);
sub DoStuff {
    print gmtime(time()).chr(10);
    after(time+1, \&DoStuff);
}
after(time+1, \&DoStuff);
1 while 1;

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So, I don't know. I may just trash this. And when I do my major rewrite I've already got planned I may switch to a module. But... not yet.

In reply to Re: Timers/running (something) after (sometime) by dimecadmium
in thread Timers/running (something) after (sometime) by dimecadmium

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