Perl Programming/Keywords/socket
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The socket keyword edit
The socket function opens a socket of the specified kind and attaches it to filehandle SOCKET. The DOMAIN, TYPE, and PROTOCOL are specified in the same way as for syscall.
Syntax edit
socket SOCKET, DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL
Examples edit
use Socket;
$proto = getprotobyname("tcp");
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";