I am a newbie to perl and I am trying to write a small socket client that will conenct to a remote server on a certain tcp port and then send and receive data until termianted. The problem is I can only send and receive one piece of data. That is, I can't seem to keep sending the receivign. The connection stays open but I can't anymore than the first line. Here is my code: 
use IO::Socket;

$socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                  PeerAddr  => '192.168.1.20',
                                  PeerPort  =>  1969,
                                  Proto => 'tcp',
                               )                
or die "Couldn't connect to Server\n";
                                                   
while (1)
{
    
    $socket->recv($recv_data,1024);
    if ($recv_data eq 'q' or $recv_data eq 'Q')
    {
        close $socket;
        last;
    }
    else
    {
        print "RECIEVED: $recv_data";   

        print "\nSEND( TYPE q or Q to Quit):";
        
        $send_data = <STDIN>;
        chop($send_data);
              
        
        if ($send_data ne 'q' and $send_data ne 'Q')
        {
            $socket->send($send_data);
        }    
        else
        {
            $socket->send($send_data);
            close $socket;
            last;
        }
        
    }

  }

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In reply to Socket Questions by packetstormer

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