"Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
Not exactly a transparent piece of code though is it. Especially if your base system isn't Unix! /R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
