how do I get my irc bot to recieve commands from the server? I have the following code but I don't get any responses from the server btw it's a unrealIRCd server and Im not using nickserv. is there any errors? 
use Socket;
use IO::Select;
sub connec
{
  my ($server,$port)=@_;
  
  $iaddr = inet_aton($server);
  $paddr = sockaddr_in($port,$iaddr);
  $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
  socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "socket failed: $!
+";
  if (connect(SOCK,$paddr)) {
    print "Connected!\n";
  }
select(SOCK);
$|=1;
select(STDOUT);

print SOCK "USER $botnick buf buf :$name\r\n";
print SOCK "NICK $botnick\r\n";

}

sub getline {
my $sck = IO::Select->new();
  $sck->add(\*SOCK);
  while(1) {
    if ((@ready = $sck->can_read(5)) != 0) {
      foreach $handle (@ready) {
    if ($handle == \*SOCK) {
      if (sysread(SOCK,$inchar,1) > 0 )
        {    
          if ($inchar eq "\n") 
        {
          chop $inline;
          return $inline;
        }
              } 
          } 
    }
     }
  }
}



while ($ircline=&getline){
($pingchk,$rest)=split(/ /,$ircline,2);
  if ($pingchk eq 'PING') { print SOCK "PONG $rest"; }
}

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I need help bad :( I just want to make the bot issue USER cmd NICK cmd and join a channel then just reply to ping with pong that's it :( no luck will continue my search until I get some help....

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