use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => 'localhost', LocalPort => '7890', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, Reuse => 1, ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(<$new_sock>) { print $_; } close($sock); #### use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => '7890', Proto => 'tcp', ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my @val = qw(Hello there! this is socket); print $sock @val; close($sock);