Question

I have one infinite for loop and i want to run this for loop for 20 seconds after that i want to terminate the loop so what can i do for this?

Here is my code in android:

do {
    rl += Character.toString((char) in.read());
    // Log.i("RL", "" + rl);
    if (rl.contains("<") && checkStream(rl)) {
        // Log.i("RL INSIDE", "" + rl);
        getNumerAndStatusFromRLString(rl);
        rl = "";
    }
    if (20 SECONDS COMPLETED) {
        Log.i("<rl>", "exit");
        break;
    }
} while (true);

So what can i do to check that 20 seconds is compeleted and now its time to terminate.

Any idea will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I think one of the options may be get time before the loop and while looping check 20 seconds elapsed or not.

Something like below: Not sure about the efficiency.

   long startTime=   System.currentTimeMillis();
do {

......

     long currTime=  System.currentTimeMillis();
     long elapsedtime = currTime - startTime;
     if(elapsedtime > 20000)
      {
      break;
      }
}