Greetings Bros. I have written the following socket client to communicate with a parser running on another machine on my LAN: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;
$| = 1;
my $socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
    PeerHost => '192.168.1.107',
    PeerPort => '27109',
    Proto => 'tcp'
) or die "No socket: $!\n";
my $sent = 'This is a test.';
print $socket "$sent\n\n";
while(<$socket>) {
    print "$_";
}
$socket->close();

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It works in the sense that it sends the sentence to the parser and prints the parser's response correctly; however, after the parser output is complete the script doesn't terminate. I guess it's caught in the while loop, though it doesn't seem to be printing blank lines or anything.

I have tried changing the while loop to 

my $line;
while( defined($line=<$socket>)) {
    print $line;
}

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but I get the same behavior. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Steve

In reply to Why won't this socket client terminate? by cormanaz

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