in reply to How to set timer in perl
In order to guide/help you without repeating steps you've already tried, whomsoever does reply would prefer to have a look see at what you've tried, by way of (skeletal) implementation, thus far i.e. in what way(s) did you try use alarm that didn't work.
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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