Christiane Nerz wrote:
> Kevin Old wrote:
> ...
> > select undef, undef, undef, 0.25 or print $_
> >   for 1 .. 5;
> ...
> quite interesting chunk of code - but what the hell does select does
> here? Yeah - I rtfm - but didn't understand it - maybe one could
> explain it in more simple words?

It's used in this case for sleeping for less than one second. The sleep()
function only sleeps for a whole number of seconds.

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