I am setting up a script to act as a "middle-man" between an IRC "front end" and another Perl script. (I may eventually merge the two together if I get it working, but thats not the point.)

Basically, I'd like to send packets (UDP; IO::Socket) to a script that parses the packet and relays relevant information to a channel on IRC. I do not have a problem with using Net::IRC by itself, and I do not have a problem with IO::Socket by itself. Maybe I'm being ignorant, but I really have no idea how to put the two together. To watch the chat room and for incoming packets. 

$irc->start;
while ($socket->recv(my $in, 1024) ) { .. }

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Both seem to "monopolize" the program. Can two "monopolistic" processes share? After thinking that, I immediately think of fork, but am still unsure of how to implement it.

Any help you monks could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

In reply to Net::IRC and IO::Socket by Anonymous Monk

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