Question

I am wondering if I can loop x times in one minute interval between each loop.

for (int x = 10; x > 0; x--)
{
     cout << "BOOM" << endl;
}

Is there any way I can print boom every one minute?
Or there is a better way to do this?

Thank you

Answer 1

Standard C++ has no such function. The closest thing you could do is have an infinite loop constantly asking if a minute has gone by.

The draft C++0x standard has sleep_until() and sleep_for() under the header <thread>, but your implementation may not support these features yet (they aren’t standard yet anyway), and it may be more work than it’s worth.

Consult your implementation documentation. There’s probably a sleep() function or something like that, and you could put something like sleep(60) in your loop.