Hi,
I am trying to use "alarm" as a timeout mechanism inside a foreach loop. I am using the $SIG{ALRM} signal to execute a sub command that includes a "next" statement. Unfortunately, the sub command has trouble with the "next".

Here is my example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my @time=(4,12,16,8);
LABELME: foreach my $t (@time)
{
     $SIG{ALRM} = sub {print "timeout\n"; next LABELME};
     print "Start $t\n";
     alarm(10);
     sleep($t);
     alarm(0);
     print "done with $t\n";
}
print "All Done!\n";

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And this is what prints: 
Start 4
done with 4
Start 12
timeout
Exiting subroutine via next at postalarm.pl line 8.
Exiting eval via next at postalarm.pl line 8.
Label not found for "next LABELME" at postalarm.pl line 8.

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Thank you in advance for your help!
-jb_using_perl

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