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looking for a function to schedule a skill function to execute at a certain time

Naveen Premkumar

Hi fellow coders,

 I am having a wierd requirement where I want to execute a skill function at a specific time of the day. For example I need to run a function at 7.00pm every day. 

This is similar to crontab in shell that we use to schedule jobs.

 One way I had in mind is to use the hiRegTimer() funciton and attach it to start up trigger. This will calculate the number of seconds from current time to 7.00pm and start the timer.

The other way is to use the crontab in shell to start virtuoso -nograph and run a replay file. I do not prefer this way as I may not see the changes made in the design by the other virutoso sessions that are existing.

I am not sure if this will be the right way to do this. Please guide me or share your experience.

Thanks,

Naveen

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  • Thanks Andrew! This is exactly what I ended up doing but like a layman by using parsestring and build string. Using regex is way smarter.

    Its good that you pointed out about virtuoso being blocked. 

    I think it may not be an issue.

    Andrew Beckett said:
    hiRegTimer("DoSomethingWeird()" secondsInFuture*10)

    HaHa! I know its really weird for me too.

    Thanks,

    Naveen

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  • Thanks Andrew! This is exactly what I ended up doing but like a layman by using parsestring and build string. Using regex is way smarter.

    Its good that you pointed out about virtuoso being blocked. 

    I think it may not be an issue.

    Andrew Beckett said:
    hiRegTimer("DoSomethingWeird()" secondsInFuture*10)

    HaHa! I know its really weird for me too.

    Thanks,

    Naveen

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