in reply to loop execution for "time" specified

In the code above, $_current_time is never updated, so you loop forever.

Change your condition to time < $_new_time.

G. Wade

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Re^2: loop execution for "time" specified
by perlpal (Scribe) on Mar 25, 2009 at 05:41 UTC
    thank you.The code is working just fine now!