The newlines in the data file *are* delimiters, of sorts.

( ++kyle; he beat me to nearly the same answer, and his is more concise! )

Untested code: 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $sock;

# ... init socket, etc ...

my $data_filename  = '/path/to/data.txt';
my $data_delimiter = "\n"; 
my $sock_line_ending = "\r\n";

open my $data_fh, '<', $data_filename
  or &error( 'open->data_filename', $data_filename );

my @commands;
{
    local $/ = $data_delimiter;
    @commands = <$data_fh>;
    chomp @commands;
}

close $data_fh
  or warn "Can't close '$data_filename': $!";

# If nothing needs to happen between commands:
#print {$sock} join($sock_line_ending, @commands),
#                   $sock_line_ending;


# If something needs to happen between commands:
foreach my $command (@commands) {
    print {$sock} $command, $sock_line_ending;

    # ... read the response, etc? ...
}

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