in reply to timer without modules

How about the built-in sleep function?

If that isn't suitable, then you'll probably need to provide a little more detail about what you are wanting to do.

Cheers,
Darren

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Re^2: timer without modules
by elunatic (Initiate) on Nov 09, 2009 at 02:34 UTC
    what im trying to do is create a weather script for an irc bot i made with IO::socket, but before i use the weather script on it i need to ensure users cannot flood the bot or channel using the publicly msg'd command.
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