Hi, I am trying to exchange strings between two perl programs. e.g
SCRIPT1. how are u.

SCRIPT2. i am fine.\n

SCRIPT1. whats up.\n

SCRIPT2. nothing much\n
i am using IO::Socket::INET. I have two problems. First, i am unable to exchange strings with each other. secondly i take the hostname and port number from command line. but when i try to do some thing like this 
my $client = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                        PeerAddr => '$host',
                        PeerPort => '$port',
                        Proto => 'tcp',)

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it gives me an error that it cannot connect. but when i replace the values with hardcoded ones it works ok. can any one write up full running code where i can exchange strings between two scripts using IO::SOCKET::INET. also the host and port number have to be taken from the command line.

In reply to exchanging strings on the network by bahadur

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