Timer/alarm clock module

[Ignoramus27279]

Is there some perl module for setting alarms? The use I have in mind
is as follows:

my $times = new AlarmModule( 600, sub { print "Hello" } );

that would make the timer wake up every 600 seconds and print hello.

Any suggestions?

i

 

[Perl Learner]

http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/pod/perlfunc/alarm.html

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[Ignoramus27279]

See the Time::HiRes module pod.

Thanks, I was looking for something object oriented that hides
$SIG{ALRM} and such.

i

 

[Tassilo v. Parseval]

Also sprach Ignoramus27279:

Is there some perl module for setting alarms? The use I have in mind
is as follows:

my $times = new AlarmModule( 600, sub { print "Hello" } );

that would make the timer wake up every 600 seconds and print hello.

Any suggestions?

You could use Event::Lib although it might be a bit oversized for that
kind of task:

use Event::Lib;

$| = 1;

my $timer = timer_new(
sub {
my $event = shift;
print "Hello";
$event->add(600); # re-schedule
}
);
$timer->add(600);
$timer->dispatch;

Tassilo