I've recently started learning perl, and have been writing simple little useless scripts to practice and have come to a dead end in the one im currently working on. Its a music player, it searches, loads, makes playlists and such and is working like i intended except for the fact that i have to change all songs manually do to the fact that i cant count down the seconds till the song is finished to change AND get input from <STDIN> for directing the script. I was wondering if there was a way to use the alarm function and $SIG{ALRM} to call a subroutine after the alarm goes off? So that i could set the alarm for the song length, then use the subroutine to change songs after its completed AND wait for user input to change volume or playlists and such. I would post the code even though its irrelevant but im not quite sure how to quote it in those fancy code blocks :D thanks so much Ryan

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