Jen Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/20/06, hOURS wrote:
> Recently I posed a question on here regarding a program I have that runs
> other programs (through require statements and what not). My problem was
> that the programs getting run might have syntax errors and I wanted to skip
> over each of those and go onto the next one. We figured out a way to handle
> that. It turns out however, that these programs sometimes have an even more
> troublesome problem: infinite loops. I knew about this possibility, but
> figured I would just use the time function, and if a program was taking to
> long, skip over it. Yeah, that wasn't so smart. I can't have the main
> program check the elapsed time while the required program is running its
> infinite loop. Or can I somehow? Any ideas anybody?
> Thank you.
> Fred Kittelmann
>
>
Fred,
Have you checked out the alarm function? I'm a beginner myself and I
had a similar problem earlier today. alarm seemed to do it for me.
Good luck!
- Jen
Thanks Jen,
I've checked out alarm as much as I can. My PERL textbook scarcely mentions
it. Trying "perldoc -f alarm" was a little more informative, but I still
don't understand how to use this. Can anyone explain it to me?
Fred
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