Hi perl monks,
I am a newbie in the forum. I was following the forum and today finally I became member of this fantastic forum. I was trying out the module "IO::Socket::PortState qw(check_ports);" It is perfectly working without reading a file:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket::PortState qw(check_ports);

my $proto   = 'tcp';
my $port    = '8307';
my $address = '127.0.0.1'; 
my %hash = ();

#########This works ########################################

my($section, $ping_timeout, %porthash);
$porthash{$proto}{$port}{'name'} = $section;
print "here is the $port";
check_ports($address, $ping_timeout, \%porthash);

my $open = $porthash{$proto}{$port}{'open'};
if ($open) {
    print "alive\n";
}
else {
    print "dead\n";
}
#################################################################
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output is :
"alive"
and the text file contains:
port1 = 8307
port2 = 15677

But when I want to read my ports from a file, results are for each port "dead", Here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket::PortState qw(check_ports);

my $proto   = 'tcp';
#my $port    = '8307';
my $address = '127.0.0.1'; 
my %hash = ();
open( OUT, "<location of the file>" )
  || die "Problems during the writing $!";

while (<OUT>) {
    %hash = ();
    my ( $key, $port ) = split( '=', $_ );
    $hash{$key} = $port;

    my ( $section, $ping_timeout, %porthash );
    $porthash{$proto}{$port}{'name'} = $section;
    check_ports( $address, $ping_timeout, \%porthash );
    my $open = $porthash{$proto}{$port}{'open'};
    if ($open) {
        print "port : $port alive\n";
    }
    else {
        print "port : $port dead\n";

    }

}
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output is :
port : 8307
dead
I really don't get it. why the port 8307 (listening) is working with the previous script and not when I read all those ports from a file?
Could you help me out from this issue?
Thanks in advance