Re: program with a timer

In addition to investigating the LWP module from CPAN you also may wish to check out the perl command 'sleep'.

eg.

 while (1==1)  {  # Loop forever
  sleep 60*10;   # do nothing for 10 minutes

  # <- insert LWP web page stuff here ->
 {
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Update:Fell for the old 'lets switch equality for assigment' trick of 1=1 instead of 1==1.

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Re: Re: program with a timer by davorg (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2001 at 15:15 UTC
while (1=1) { `Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at ./test.pl line 1, n +ear "1) "` [download] Did you mean just `while (1) {` [download] -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: program with a timer by lzcd (Pilgrim) on Jan 12, 2001 at 15:19 UTC
Thanks for spotting my typo. I suppose your variation is just as good but TMTOWTDI stikes again with whats familiar for me.	[reply]