I am looking for some help with a perl script I a have written to receive data on a designated port. If there is another way to code this to listen and receive messages, I would appreciate that too. When I run the script I created, I get the following error: 
Can't call method "recv" on an undefined value at W:\Developers\Randal
+l_c\Working\sms_interface_server_receive.pl line 84.

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Here is the code form the perl script: 
 # Server Program
use IO::Socket;
print ">> Server Program <<\n";
# Create a new socket
my $socket=new IO::Socket::INET(LocalHost => '172.17.8.201', LocalPort
+=>2003,Proto=>'tcp'); print "Connection to the socket was successful.
+\n"; # Keep receiving messages from client my $def_msg="\nWaiting to 
+receive message from client.....\n"; my $text =''; my $varlength = 24
+;
while(1)
{
    
    $socket->recv($text,'24');
    if($text ne '')
    {
        print "\nReceived message '", $text,"'\n";
    }
    # If client message is empty exit
    else
    {
        print "Cilent has exited!";
        exit 1;
    }
}

}

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In reply to Can't call method "recv" on an undefined value by randall_c

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