Net::IRC creates a number of Net::IRC::Connection objects which control the actual sockets. There's a method in Net::IRC::Connection called sl which takes a single parameter, the string you wish to submit "raw" to the server. As the documentation for this module is very scarce, my suggestion to you is UTSL.

Hope this helps.

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