#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use IO::Socket; use IO::Select; my $listener = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalPort => 42424, Listen => 1, ) or die "failed to create socket: $!"; my $select = IO::Select->new( $listener ); my %buffers = (); while ( my @ready = $select->can_read ) { foreach my $fh ( @ready ) { if ( $fh == $listener ) { my $new = $listener->accept; $buffers{ $new } = ''; $select->add( $new ); } else { $fh->sysread( $buffers{ $fh }, 1024, length( $buffers{ $fh } ) ); while ( $buffers{ $fh } =~ s/STX(.*?)ETX// ) { process( $1 ); } } } } sub process { print "GOT: $_[0]\n"; }