Hello

There are several problems in your code. I'll list them below. But first, why are you not using Net::IRC? If you want to reinvent the wheel, then why are you not using IO::Socket::INET? Why are you doing all the dirty work yourself?

Here are the things that are causing the problems:

1. $botnick is used but never defined.
2. $name also is used but never defined.
3. You are using sysread to read from the socket, however, IRC is not a binary protocol. You should use <SOCK> instead.
4. You are reading one char at a time which is not what you should do.
5. This segment will always return an empty string:

    if ($inchar eq "\n") # $inchar is one char long
           {
             chop $inline; # remove it
             return $inline; # return empty.
           }

6. You are defining the function connec which does the connect but never actually calling it.
7. It works after fixing all the above points.

Now back to using IO::Socket::INET, the above code can be shortened to:

use IO::Socket;

my $server = 'irc.openprojects.net';
my $port = 6667;
my $nick = 'aziz';
my $name = 'Abdulaziz Ghuloum';
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
   PeerAddr => $server, PeerPort => $port)
    or die "Cannot connect: $!\n";

print $sock "USER $nick buf buf :$name\r\n";
print $sock "NICK $nick\r\n";

while(<$sock>){
    print;
    my ($pingchk,$rest)=split(/ /,$_,2);
    if ($pingchk eq 'PING') { 
        print $sock "PONG $rest\r\n"; 
    }
}
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Hope this helps,,,

Aziz,,,