Screwy Loop? Time something, and not something else...

[Cambo]

These boards are on fire! And everyone seems to be extremely helpful!

I figured I had one more question pressing on my mind so why not ask it! I'm very new to autoit, and have only been coding altogether for about 5 months, so if the questions I ask seem trivial, please forgive me!

I want some kind of loop that sends a certain defined key (using SEND(), very simple) every 60 secs or so (I normally just do Sleep(Random(60000,65000)) or something) but also is constantly (without the sleep) checking for a string (using my newly learned StringRegExp() )

Right now I have something like this:

While 1
    Send("{k}")
    Sleep(Random(60000,65000))  
    $lines = FileRead("file.log")

        If StringRegExp($lines, "A|B|C") Then
            Sleep(Random(3000,5000))
            DoSomethingElse()
        EndIf

WEnd

But this only reads the file every 60 seconds. I want it to constantly (no sleep timer) read the file while only every 60 seconds send the key. What else am I missing tonight?

Thanks again for the wonderful help!

[Squirrely1]

You make the execution of the thing that sleeps longer to be conditionally executed:

Send("{k}")
$time = (Random(60000,65000))
$base = TimerInit()
While 1
    If TimerDiff($base) > $time Then
        Send("{k}")
        $time = (Random(60000,65000))
        $base = TimerInit()
    EndIf
    $lines = FileRead("file.log")
    If StringRegExp($lines, "A|B|C") Then
        Sleep(Random(3000,5000))
        DoSomethingElse()
    EndIf
WEnd