sleep

Suspend code execution.

Syntax

• sleep(sec)

Input argument

• n - a double: duration of the sleep in seconds (decimal number).

Description

sleep stops Nelson processing any instruction for a speficied number of seconds.

CTRL-C interruption stops sleep.

Example

tic();sleep(1);toc()
tic();sleep(0.1);toc()
tic();sleep(0.01);toc()

See also

tic, toc.

History

Author

Allan CORNET