On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to determine how long an system operation takes. Anyone know > of a simple way to do this ? > > I wanted to establish the start time. Then run the operation. Then mark > the finish time. Then substract the start time from the finish time to > get an elapsed time. Here's the simplistic approach I tried. I'm sure I > need a time that is measured in seconds or something like that, but I'm > not sure how to do this.
You might want to look $^T variable. This variable is the time (secs from 1970) that a perl program is started. Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
