Welcome randallc59,

I looked at this yesterday, and tried to format your code, but it just takes too long and I wasn't sure I was doing it correctly. While Perl doesn't have a problem with line and space formatting, human monks do.

I suspect that you could copy and paste from a *nix terminal to the HTML to ask this question, but *nix uses "\n" for line termination and HTML needs "\r\n" within the code.

Also <code> should end with </code>

Try it and verify that it looks correct. That's what the 'preview' button if for...Ed

Well done Perlbotics,

Thanks to a suggestion from Perlbotics who said "Re Re: Add HTTP Post For Socket Connection Hi, simple trick - unless you were joking ;-) (Right-?)Click your browsers "Show Sourcecoude" or "View Page Source" option and scroll to the posting. Most of the time, the copy/pasted stuff is readable there. Regards, PB" and it worked!

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use DBI;
use DBD::Oracle;

our (@command, $command);
our ($socket_success_fl);
our $svcpk;


my $cable_command;

##$cable_command = '
##<Transaction id = "12345" wait="1" priority="1">
##<AddUpdateLocation>
##<LocationId> 8002721493 </LocationId>
##<HeadendCode> 01 </HeadendCode>
##<Address1> 19 Bow Circle </Address1>
##<Address2> Bow Circle Business Ctr Unit 402 </Address2>
##<City> Hilton Head Island</City>
##<State> SC </State>
##<Zip> 29926 </Zip>
##</AddUpdateLocation>
##</Transaction>';

####$cable_command = $ARGV[0]

####    or die "Could not find an argument \n";
    
print "$cable_command\n";    


        $socket_success_fl = 'N';
       
        socket_connect();
        
       if  ($socket_success_fl =~ /Y/){
            process_command();
            socket_close();
       }elsif ($socket_success_fl =~ /N/){
                print "Unable to connect to socket!!....\n";
       }


sub socket_connect {
    socket (SH, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp')) || die $!
+;

    my $dest = sockaddr_in (22928, inet_aton('172.17.15.102'));

    connect (SH, $dest) || die $!;
    $socket_success_fl = 'Y';    
    print "Connected to socket\n";    
}


sub process_command {
    my $v_param;
    my $buffer;
    
    $v_param = $cable_command;

    @command = split(/&/,$v_param);
    
    foreach $command (@command) {
        
        print "$command\n";

        if ($command =~ /SVCPK=/ ) {            
            $svcpk = substr($command,6,10);
            print "svcpk = ", $svcpk, " \n"; }
        else {
            print "About to send command\n";
           send (SH, "$command\r", 0);
            print "sent command\n";
        
           print "about to read response buffer\n";
           sysread (SH, $buffer, 1000);
           print "read response buffer\n";
           print "response = ", $buffer, " \n";
           }
    }
}


sub socket_close{    
    close(SH);
    print "Socket closed \n";
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++ to Perlbotics, who sent the above private message to show an old dog a new trick! Well Done!