32 lines
921 B
Go
32 lines
921 B
Go
// [Timers](timers) are for when you want to do
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// something once in the future - tickers are for when you
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// want to do something repeatedly at regular intervals.
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// Here's an example of a ticker that ticks periodically
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// until we stop it.
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package main
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import "time"
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import "fmt"
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func main() {
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// Tickers use a similar mechanism to timers: a
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// chanel that is sent values. Here we'll use the
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// `range` builtin on the channel to iterate over
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// the values as they arrive every 500ms.
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ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Millisecond * 500)
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go func() {
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for t := range ticker.C {
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fmt.Println("Tick at", t)
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}
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}()
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// Tickers can be stopped like timers. Once a ticker
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// is stopped it won't receive any more values on its
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// channel. We'll stop ours after 1500ms.
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time.Sleep(time.Millisecond * 1500)
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ticker.Stop()
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fmt.Println("Ticker stopped")
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}
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