I'm trying to learn some basic network communications using the IO module. After reading the man pages for IO::Socket and IO::Select I wrote the following test script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

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

my $s = IO::Select->new();
$s->add(\*STDIN);

my $foo;
my $msg;

$s->can_read();

foreach $foo ( $s->can_read() ){
    $foo->recv($msg, 1024, 0);
    print "$msg\n";
}

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To me, this looks like it should work fine, but instead of running smoothly it produces this error message:
Can't locate object method "recv" via package "IO::Handle" (perhaps you forgot to load "IO::Handle"?)

Now, I didn't load IO::Handle, because I didn't need any of the functions from it directly. I realize that IO::Socket inherits from IO::Handle, but shouldn't that just take care of itself behind the scenes?

-Ben Jacobs (dooberwah)
http://dooberwah.perlmonk.org
"one thing i can tell you is you got to be free"

Edit: Added <code> tags. larsen

In reply to Problems with IO::Socket and recv by dooberwah

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