How to output from socket connections, please help

Galvatron has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello. I'm very new to perl. I've been using Flash and XML and been trying to code a socket server to make a little chat room from flash and XML. The problem is that xml tags are accepted in the perl script that I got, but I don't know what to do to output the XML tags back to the client (which is Flash on an XML socket connection) What functions do I use? I've loaded the IO::Socket and IO::Select modules and have set the parameters to tcp, port 1234, listen etc. The two perl books I have don't tell you how to out put data. If anyone can tell me, they would be of great help. Thanks

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Re: How to use perl sockets? by busunsl (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2002 at 18:47 UTC
Go to Super Search and search for 'socket' in text. You will find lots of nodes that will give you the information you need.	[reply]
Re: How to output from socket connections, please help by Anonymous Monk on Jan 17, 2002 at 19:12 UTC
Take a look at perldoc perlipc and in particular TCP Clients with IO::Socket Regards.	[reply]
Re: How to output from socket connections, please help by alien_life_form (Pilgrim) on Jan 17, 2002 at 19:22 UTC
Greetings, Perlipc,as advise above, is good reading. Also, one of your Perl books should be the perl cookbok from O'Reilly (the Ram). Check out chapter 17. Other bibliography (gleaned from the Ram book): The socket , bind , connect , and gethostbyname functions in Chapter 3 of Programming Perl and in perlfunc (1); the documentation for the standard Socket, IO::Socket, and Net::hostent modules; the section on "Internet TCP Clients and Servers" in Chapter 6 of Programming Perl and in perlipc (1); Unix Network Programming , by W. Richard Stevens, published by Prentice Hall (1992); Finally, part of the solution to your problem is called "print"....:-). Cheers, alf You can't have everything: where would you put it?	[reply]
Re: How to output from socket connections, please help by agoth (Chaplain) on Jan 18, 2002 at 14:44 UTC
Another book recommendation which I've found invaluable and isn't mentioned above: Network Programming with Perl. Lincoln D. Stein.	[reply]
Re: How to use perl sockets? by rdfield (Priest) on Jan 17, 2002 at 17:43 UTC
try `print SOCKET $data;` [download] rdfield	[reply] [d/l]