in reply to pause/wait command?

perldoc -f sleep 

while( sleep 120 ) { 
  # do what you want
}

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Re^2: pause/wait command?
by ChrisJ-UK (Novice) on Jul 28, 2004 at 12:52 UTC

    I've never seen it used as the condition of a while loop. I rather like that.

    What I've always done it just inset it in the code

    while (#Files do not yet exist)
{
sleep(120);
#check for files;
}

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