Re: Imposing a timeout on the <> operator - is this possible?
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Date: 03/05/04
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Date: 5 Mar 2004 12:03:36 -0800
megapode@hotmail.com (Bob Dubery) wrote in message news:<e8f67309.0403050032.56b21ea8@posting.google.com>...
> OK... a wierd situation and not a common one, but I want to improve
> the code. Specificially when I invoke <> I'd like to be able to impose
> a time out so that if I get nothing back after n seconds I can raise
> an error condition and start interrogating the next site.
>
You can use alarm to do this. There is an example in the Perl Cookbook (16.21).
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