I believe I solved my problem with the following code. It seems to be working well with testing. See any issues? 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
use IO::Select;

$timeout = 180;
$host    = shift;
$port    = shift;
$string  = shift;

my $TIMEDOUT, $counter;

$MySocket = new IO::Socket::INET->new("$host:$port") or die "connect: 
+$@";

$command  = "EDMSFT\|$string\|\@\n";
$MySocket->send($command);

while (($text !~ m/$string/)&&(!$TIMEDOUT)&&($counter<30)) {
  if( () = IO::Select->new($MySocket)->can_read($timeout) ) {
     my $sender = $MySocket->recv( $text, 1024, 0 );
     $counter++;  ### TIMEOUT if counter hits 30 without a match
  }
  else {
    $TIMEDOUT=1;
  }
}

if ((!$TIMEDOUT)&&($counter<30)) {
        print "GOOD\n";
}
else {
        print "TIMEDOUT\n";
}
close $MySocket;
exit;

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In reply to Re: Using IO::Socket by Earindil
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