Here's some semi-tested client code that reads what it can. then does the inner loop for each whole line. 

# cli.pl:

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new('127.0.0.1:1235') or die "sock: $@";
my $sel = IO::Select->new($sock);

my $buffer = '';

while(@1 = $sel->can_read(2) and sysread $sock, $buffer, 4096, length 
+$buffer)
  {
  while( $buffer =~ s/^.*\n// )
    {
    my $line = $&;
    print "got: ", $line; # or whatever processing you want here...
    }
  }
die @1 ? "socket closed" : "timeout";

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If you change the read size to 1 you get the read-a-byte-at-a-time behavior.

In reply to Re^7: IO::Socket tutorial by tybalt89
in thread IO::Socket tutorial by BernieC

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