in reply to Re^4: Buffering & Network Programming Reads and Writes!!
in thread Buffering & Network Programming Reads and Writes!!

local $/ = '\x0A';
should be
local $/ = "\x0A";

It's waiting for the 4 char sequence "\", "x", "0", "A", but it never receives it.

Next time, please provide something runnable.

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Re^6: Buffering & Network Programming Reads and Writes!!
by MarkovChain (Sexton) on Apr 17, 2009 at 19:43 UTC
    Many Thanks to Ikegami!! Learnt a lot from here. I also replumbed the code using IO::Socket::INET. Cheers!!
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