Dear community, I'm programming a simple socket client who connect to a server and send data. The below code works perfect, but I'm searching a method to check connection prior to send data. This because I'm sending data continuosly using a loop, and if, for some reason, the connection goes down, the script hangs. So, is there a way to check if the connection is established and, if not, call again OpenSocket Sub inside the loop? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;
my $sock1;

sub OpenSocket{
$sock1 = new IO::Socket::INET(
                  PeerAddr => '192.168.10.7',
                  PeerPort => 8000,
                  Proto    => 'tcp');
$sock1 or die "no socket :$!";
}

################ START SCRIPT #################

OpenSocket();
$str="Something to send";
while (1) {
$sock1->send($str);
}
close($sock1);

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In reply to Check connection state prior to send data by Lucas Rey

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