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how to poll a text file at regular interval using SKILL

fazul
fazul over 14 years ago

hi all,

I am very new to SKILL programming.   

I am currently writing a program to do some statistical calculations (at runtime) using the results of monte carlo simulation. 

Since the simulator seems to be writing values in chucks and there are times when my program has to wait for new values to be written, I thought of polling the 'mcdata' result text file on a interval of fixed time (say 1min) ..

when i searched for appropriate functions to implement a time delay between each lineread()s,  i could find only ipcSleep(delay) and hiRegTimer("func()" delay) functions  but both of them doesnt seem to be useful in my case..

ipcSleep() pauses everything even the monte carlo simulation run

hiRegTimer() just places the callback function to be run after a delay and proceed with the next line of my code..

How can i do this? kindly guide me . I hope i stated my problem clear enough...

thanks in advance,

-Fazul

 

 

 

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 14 years ago
    Might help, but I think it's fundamentally the wrong approach, as I outlined in my last reply.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 14 years ago
    Might help, but I think it's fundamentally the wrong approach, as I outlined in my last reply.

    Regards,

    Andrew
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