Thread: how to do something periodically?

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    Question how to do something periodically?

    id like to know how to code a function that performs some action periodically until a stoping condition is reached. for example, id like it to display and record the output of a temperature sensor every minute for an hour. thanx alot.

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    Depends to a certain extent on your OS and your application. For a simple setup like you describe, put a wait function in your loop. The wait function maybe wait() Wait() sleep() Sleep() or something else, depends on the OS and possibly even the compiler.
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