Hello Gurus,

I have not done much socket programming and here I get a script that I have to modify and don't know how. I tried searching this site and a book, but to no avail. Please help (grin).

The script reads lines from a socket using: 

while (<$sock>)
{
    ...
}

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The lines can be grouped by some criteria and when the first line from a group arrives I know how many more lines to expect. Now, if the connection is lazy or someone forgot to send some lines from the group, I should be able to discover it after let's say 5 minutes, log an error and continue with reading from the socket. Any ideas will be gladly received...

topsik

Edit by dws for tag cleanup

In reply to Reading from socket with timeout (sort of) by Anonymous Monk

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