#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
    PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1',
    PeerPort => '7070',
    Proto => 'tcp',
    );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
print $sock "Hello there!\n";
close($sock);