in reply to How to implement a timer in perl?

You answered your own question :)

an alarm routine will trigger and exit the script
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Re^2: How to implement a timer in perl?
by exussum0 (Vicar) on Feb 02, 2006 at 19:39 UTC
    Ironically, the link you gave has an example of how to use alarm w/o it exiting by rerouting the encryptions, i mean the signal handler. :)
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