On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:33, Rob Dixon wrote: > "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!
Yes, I agree, but technically it's not my code snippet. From whoever I learned the autoflushing technique from, they gave me this code snippet. Yeah, I was confused about the select statement, but the perldoc on select does have that same snippet for delaying 1/4 second. Oh well.... Kevin -- Kevin Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
