in reply to IO::Select Difficulties

use strict; use IO::Socket; use IO::Select; #set up some handles my $h1 = IO::Socket::INET->( LocalPort => $port_1, Proto => 'udp' ) or die "Couldn't start upd listen on $port_1: $@\n"; my $h2 = IO::Socket::INET->( LocalPort => $port_2, Proto => 'udp' ) or die "Couldn't start upd listen on $port_2: $@\n"; my $readable_h = new IO::Select(); $readable_h->add($h1); $readable_h->add($h2); while (1) { my @readable = $readable_h->can_read($timeout); foreach my $sock (@readable) { $buf = <$sock> # ## do something with buf # } }

Coded quickly mising detail but should give you the right idea.

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