I strongly suggest you read Tutorial the section on how to ask a question. Very few monks with bother to read 100+ lines of code. You probelm is one of design, or rather the lack of it. The logic you need is trivial..... 

my $connection;

while(1) {

    # the connect method either returns a valid connection object or u
+ndef, ERR_MSG
    print "Trying to connect.....";
    ($connection, my $error) = connect();

    if ( $connection ) {
        print "Connected OK!\n";
      last;
    }
    else {
        print "Connect failed error: $error, retry in 5 sec.\n";
        sleep 5;
    }
}

# now do stuff with your $connection

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: net::telnet errmode issue by tachyon
in thread net::telnet errmode issue by smurray

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