Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
im a beginner to perl, but not programming
and i just wrote a very basic perl chat server and client
but i cant get the client to be able to know if the server
has recieved and sent out a new message.
ive tried a few methods such as checking if the filehandle
is readable but that gets it stuck in an infinite loop.
and i dont want to have it call a subroutine to print
messages from the server every certain number of seconds thats
gay. Someone please help!!!!
thanks
tristan
Without seeing your code, I highly recommend select, or the IO::Select module. I believe perlipc goes into great detail and provides some good examples of how to use this.
You might also like merlyn's WebTechniques columns, several of which have highly-commented examples.