in reply to Time Out eval

Certainly! An eval{}; + alarm() combo is a standard perl trick and its mentioned in several perl books. Try this:

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc/alarm.html

Edit: Link changed due to probable copyright violations of original link.

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Re^2: Time Out eval
by ssandv (Hermit) on Aug 06, 2009 at 19:53 UTC
    I'm pretty sure the ukranian website there isn't hosting approved copies of the Perl bookshelf, though I could be mistaken.
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