Hi all:
Howdy.
I'm trying to determine how long an system operation takes. Anyone know
of a simple way to do this ?
You were on the right track. Try this:
my $start = time;
# do something to time here
my $time_taken = time - $start;
If you want more information on the time() subroutine, try (at the commandline):
perldoc -f time
And if you get into timing things it won't be long before you want the Benchmarking module, generally. You can read about it too:
perldoc Benchmark
Hope that helps.
James
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