I am writing a simple IRC client that connects to a handful of servers and waits for input. Current I can correctly join and listen to one server, but I am unsure of how to add multiple servers to the mix. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate the assistance. I've been messing around with IO::Select but I'm not sure if that's the correct approach or not. 
my $sock = new IO::Socket::SSL(PeerAddr => 'myircserver', PeerPort => 
+'6697', Proto => 'tcp') or die "Can't connect\n";

print $sock "NICK mlapaglia\r\n";
print $sock "USER mlapaglia\r\n";

while(my $input = <$sock>) {
    if($input =~ /004/) {
        last;
    }
    elsif($input =~ /433/) {
        die "nickname already in use\n";
    }
}

print $sock "JOIN #testing123\r\n";

while(my $input = <$sock>) {
    chop $input;
    if($input =~ /^PING(.*)$/i) {
        print $sock "PONG $1\r\n";
    }
    elsif($input =~ /^:(.*)!(.*)\@(.*?) PRIVMSG (.*)/i) {
        event_privmsg("myserver", $4, $1, $3);
    }
}

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