sleep is the function you want.
example:
----------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @a = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);
for (my $i = 0; @a, $i++) {
print $a[$i], "\n";
sleep(5); # wait 5 seconds before continuing loop
}
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, SuccessInMind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone point me toward their favorite timer script?
>
> I want to delay each element of an array using the "foreach"
> function with a five seconds delay between element. In other
> words I want to introduce a five second delay between each call.
>
> Is there another way beside storing "time" in a temp file and
> comparing it with the present time to break out of the loop when
> the time match or is greater?
>
> Normand Charette
>
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