Dear bahudur,

First, the single-quotes wont work, since instead of passing the mod the actual host name, you're passing it the string '$host'.

Now, if you wanted to acquire your host and port from the command line, and you wanted to call your program like this:

./myprog.pl host.name.here 4567

, then you would get the hostname from $ARGV[0] and the port from $ARGV[1] (@ARGV holds stuff from the command line). Your structure should then be similar to:

my $client = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
                                   PeerPort => $ARGV[1],
                                   Proto    => 'tcp');
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If it works with hard-coded values, the above code should also work - if it doesn't, write back and maybe we can figure something out.

Hope this helps,