Re: test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-25 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:39, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > Original Message- > From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:07 PM > To: Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: test co

RE: test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-24 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Original Message- From: Chas. Owens [mailto:chas.ow...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:07 PM To: Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: test contents of variable using alarm() On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:34, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL

Re: test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:34, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to use timers to check if certain variables are set and if not > send some data back to a client... > > Been searching for this a while now, but all I can find on alarm are > examples on timing out comman

test contents of variable using alarm()

2010-08-20 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Hi All, I want to use timers to check if certain variables are set and if not send some data back to a client... Been searching for this a while now, but all I can find on alarm are examples on timing out commands So something like: sub timeout { $timeout = 5; eval { l