sleep in Perl

Sleep is used to stop Perl interpreter executing the next statement for the specified time

In following example the next statement will be executed after 60 seconds.

Program Code:

# !/Perl/bin/perl

print("This is a demo of sleep function\n");

print("After this line program wil sleep for 1 minutes\n");

sleep(60);

print("Hey i am ready now");

  

Output:

After 60 seconds