This first bit if code is the sending portion of the socket (cliant)

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
 
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                 PeerAddr => '10.2.7.193',
                                 PeerPort => '7788',
                                 Proto => 'tcp',
                                );
die "Could not create socket :-( $!\n" unless $sock;
print $sock "hello world!";
close($sock);
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The next bit of code is the recieving portion of the socket code (server)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                   LocalHost => '10.2.7.193',
                                   LocalPort => '7788',
                                   Proto => 'tcp',
                                   Listen => 2,
                                   Reuse => 1,
                                );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
 
my $new_sock = $sock->accept();
while(defined(<$new_sock>))
{
 my $storage = $_;
 print $storage;
}
close($sock);
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When I execute the recieving program on the server machine and then execute the sending program on the cliant machine, I would expect that the cliant would send the text "hello world" to the server machine. I, however, am recieving the following error message instead:

Use of uninitialized value in print at ./socket_serv line 17, <GEN1> l
+ine 1.
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I am new to socket programming, but do realize that is very powerful. If anyone has any ideas of what might be wrong or any resources that might help me out, I would be very appreciative of your help. Thank you for your time in looking at my problem. Have a nice day :-)