Hi.. excuse the newbie question... I have a script that needs to connect with a server, request data >then needs to compare servers response with whats in my $string_to_compare > log details & email if they match.. "how do I compare whats received in the {print} statement from my server, with my string_to_compare ??" 
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new("$remote_server:43") || die $!;
     print $sock "$data\r\n";
     while ( <$sock> )
{print}

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I used to run something similar...but this doesn't seem to process anything from my new socket...?? 
print $sock "$data\r\n";
my @output = <$sock>;
$output = join('', @output);

if ($output =~ /$string_to_compare/gi) {
&true;
} else {
&false;
}

sub true {
open(tmpl, "email.txt") || print $!;

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thanks Steve

In reply to compare server response? by webshark

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