Desperate for wisdom!

Here is an example of code which preps a message to be sent
to a server. Packing works great, however when I receive a
response from the server, and print the content of that
response, I get some gibberish in front of every line
printed out. I'm assuming that my unpacking does not work.
Can someone please help me with this?
The message being returned is in the same format as the
message I'm sending.


$msg="1;SS";
$msg .= "\015";

my $cmd = pack "i/A*", $msg;

print $socket $cmd;
while( <$socket> ){
  print unpack('A*',$_) . "\n";
}

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sample output from server to this message using the above:
1. RC
I10,49,54

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the correct output should be:
1. RC
1. TI10,49,54

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any help would be greatly appreciated

20030416 Edit by Corion : Added code tags

In reply to Pack & Unpack by vivapl

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