I've made a server application for a project. It's working ok on the input side - it reads the client input no problem. The client input is not in perl - it is sending data, and then terminating the data with a zero byte. When I try to send the server response back to the client by using 

{
# the beginning of the event loop is above ...
local $\ = "\0";
print $socket $data;     # $socket is a IO::Socket::INET object
return;
}

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it does not work - the client seems to acknowlege the zero char, but not the data that comes before. So I have 2 questions.

1. How would I send a stream of characters through the filehandle to the client? I'm thinking that that may be the answer.

2. What other ways can you write a zero byte beside "\0"?
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