alarm

use Socket;

eval {
        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "time is out" };
        alarm 3;
        socket SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp');
        connect SOCK, sockaddr_in(81, inet_aton("microsoft.com"))
                                         or die "connect failed";
        alarm 0;
        send SOCK, "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n", 0;
        print while <SOCK>;
        shutdown SOCK, 2;
};
print "$@\n" if $@;

die

$warnings = 0;

$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { print @_ if $warnings };
$SIG{__DIE__} = sub { print "Goodbye, my darling!\n" };

warn "i'm only warning...";
die "i'm dying...";

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var message = "ananas";
var hash = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < message.length; i++) {
    var char = message.charAt(i);
    if (typeof(hash[char]) == 'undefined')
        hash[char] = 1;
    else
        hash[char]++;
}
for (var key in hash) {
    WSH.Echo(key + " : " + hash[key]);
}

function readfile(filename) {
    var ForReading = 1;
    var fso, f, s = "";
    fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, ForReading, false);
    try {
        s = f.ReadAll();
    } catch(e) {
        // ...
    }
    return s;
}

var s = readfile("1.txt");
WScript.Echo(s);
var a = s.split("\r\n");
WScript.Echo(":" + a[0] + ":");