Ah, got it. This should work:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Curses;
use Net::Ping;

@host_array = qw(fee fie foo quan);

initscr();
cbreak();
noecho();
clear();
refresh();
endwin();

while(1) {
  # High precision syntax (requires Time::HiRes)
  foreach my $host (@host_array) {
    $p = Net::Ping->new();
    $p->hires(1);
    ($ret, $duration, $ip) = $p->ping($host, 5.5);
    printf("$host [ip: $ip] is down\n") unless $p->ping($host, 2);
    printf("$host [ip: $ip] is alive (packet return time: %.2f ms)\n",
+ 1000 * $duration) if $ret;
    $p->close();
  }
  $p->close();
  exit(0);
}
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