Re: Help to infinite loop

[Corion]

Maybe you want to print a newline?

print "checking website...\n";

Otherwise, I wonder what you expect an infinite loop to do, other than making your program run forever...

[ikegami]

Explanation for Corion's proposal: Suffering from Buffering

Perl is happily printing your string into a buffer every minute. Had you waited 3 hours and 35 minutes, you probably would have seen 215 copies of the message appear at once.

[Mik0r]

Yes, I need it to run until stopped, which I have written an input sub function which changes the variable to 0 which should then stop it. but problem still remains that the loop never runs when its called and locks it up

[Bloodnok]

Surely the question still remains, how do you know ...that the loop never runs... ? By ...it locks up..., I assume you mean the caller, aka the script, which if true, surely implies that the loop is indeed starting and as Corion and ikegami have both already pointed out, you (or more accurately, your script) is 'suffering' from buffering.